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Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --resume --skipfirst

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On Wednesday, 29 April 2026 01:39:38 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
> On 4/28/26 7:20 PM, Alexis wrote:
> > Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> writes:
> >>> You may remember that I started this thread with an observation
> >>> that --resume
> >>> --skipfirst has been superseded, but that's what I needed to
> >>> do.
> >>> 
> >>> Full circle...
> >> 
> >> I'm not aware of anything changing.  Are there any docs for
> >> these
> >> changes?  I wish they would post on this list when things
> >> changes.
> > 
> > Yes, i'd be interested in a link to the referenced dev's comments;
> > i'm not aware of any such change(s) myself, and it's the sort of
> > thing that would probably come up on the Web forums (which is the
> > primary place people seek support[a]). There's nothing in the
> > emerge(1) man page entries for `--resume` and `--skipfirst` to
> > indicate that they've been superseded by some other approach, or
> > just generally deprecated.
> > 
> > 
> > Alexis.
> > 
> > [a] i much prefer mailing lists over Web forums myself, for
> > various reasons, but my experience is that nowadays, the majority
> > of users have the reverse preference, and strongly so.
> 
> Well, I think a dev posted something here on this list a while back
> about something that might be added to Gentoo.  I like it when they
> post something about changes because unless you read the docs every
> time there is a upgrade and remember enough to notice any changes,
> how else you going to know something changed?  I'll admit, I
> subscribe to the dev mailing list because that does give me a heads
> up to some changes.  I don't think changes to emerge is ever posted
> there.  I do on occasion see a discussion about adding a feature to
> emerge but rarely see anything about whether it was added or not.
> 
> Even if it was just a post to this list that was a short description
> and a link to a wiki, forum thread or the details itself, that would
> be a big help.  I guess that no one wants to volunteer to do the job
> that is in the know about the changes tho.
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-)

I don't know if anything has changed in emerge's options.

Peter wrote above:

"... I started this thread with an observation that --resume --skipfirst 
has been superseded"  

What I understand Peter was referring to as being superseded is NOT any 
emerge options, but his original list of packages being processed by 
emerge.  This took place when he restarted 'emerge -e' afresh, after 
cancelling Chromium's mammoth compilation.  This action created a new 
list of packages by emerge, including packages Peter had just emerged.

The manual states this quite useful feature about the '--resume' option, 
which however would not resolve Peter's problem:

"A resume list will persist until it has been completed in entirety or 
until another aborted merge list replaces it.  The resume history is 
capable of storing two merge lists.  After one resume list completes, it 
is possible to invoke --resume once again in order to resume an older 
list."

Since in this case both 'emerge -e' lists are identical this clever 
feature won't help.

I think a better solution, other than manually excluding packages 
already emerged (plus Chromium), would be to apply something similar to 
Bryan's suggestion posted earlier.  Use some incantation of eix to 
filter packages before the Chromium emerge took place AND after the 
second 'emerge -e' was run, then exclude this generated list from a new 
emerge -e @world.

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  Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --resume --skipfirst Philipp Ludwig <gentoo@philippludwig.net> - 2026-04-27 21:30 +0200
    Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --resume --skipfirst Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> - 2026-04-27 22:50 +0200
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