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

From	Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.gentoo.user
Subject	Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --resume --skipfirst
Date	2026-04-28 10:30 +0200
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On Monday, 27 April 2026 21:39:54 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
> On 4/27/26 2:18 PM, Philipp Ludwig wrote:
> > If you are in the mood for a hack, add --keep-going to the
> > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS.
> > Then, in a case like "i actually don't want to compile this
> > huge package", you can just kill the respective compilation
> > process; emerge registers this a a failed compilation
> > and keeps going with the remaining packages.
> > 
> > Note: This is not recommended by any dev, so try at your own risk.
> 
> I actually added this to my options in make.conf long ago and it works
> very well.  If I start a emerge and a package fails and I'm napping or
> not watching it, it just continues on and lets me know at the end what
> failed.
> 
> In the situation that the OP is in, just doing a CTRL C and then
> restarting the emerge should skip that first package just fine.  So as a
> user who has used this setting for a long time, it does work well.

The option is in my make.conf, but I hadn't thought of that way of resuming an 
emerge.

You learn something new every day, it seems.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.

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[gentoo-user] Emerge --resume --skipfirst Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> - 2026-04-27 18:40 +0200
  Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --resume --skipfirst Bryan Gardiner <bog@khumba.net> - 2026-04-27 19:40 +0200
  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
      Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --resume --skipfirst Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> - 2026-04-28 10:30 +0200
        Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --resume --skipfirst Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> - 2026-04-28 12:00 +0200
          Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --resume --skipfirst Philipp Ludwig <gentoo@philippludwig.net> - 2026-04-28 14:20 +0200
            Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --resume --skipfirst Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> - 2026-04-28 16:20 +0200
              Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --resume --skipfirst Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> - 2026-04-28 17:00 +0200
                Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --resume --skipfirst Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> - 2026-04-28 22:50 +0200
                Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --resume --skipfirst Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> - 2026-04-28 23:40 +0200
                Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --resume --skipfirst Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> - 2026-04-29 02:30 +0200
                Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --resume --skipfirst Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> - 2026-04-29 02:50 +0200
                Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --resume --skipfirst Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com> - 2026-04-29 11:30 +0200
                Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --resume --skipfirst Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> - 2026-04-29 11:40 +0200

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