Re: Emerge --resume --skipfirst

Peter Humphrey <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:47:18 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.user
Message-ID <2856700.mvXUDI8C0e@cube>
On Tuesday, 28 April 2026 15:58:08 British Summer Time Dale wrote:

> Now that I think about this, I think it is --keep-going that I have in
> make.conf.  Be right back.  Yep.  I got the two confused for some
> reason.  I don't have --skipfirst in make.conf but do have
> --keep-going.  So, if you stop emerge and want to skip Chrome, just
> emerge --resume --skipfirst and it should skip Chrome.  Just make sure
> that only Chrome is actively compiling.  Sometimes two packages will be
> working at the same time.  If you have two or more compiling at the same
> time, I'm not sure how emerge will handle that.  I don't think I've ever
> ran into that before.  :/

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--skipfirst has been superseded, but that's what I needed to do.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...

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Regards,
Peter.