Re: Emerge --resume --skipfirst

Dale <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:30:03 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4/28/26 3:47 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> 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 --skipfirst has been superseded, but that's what I needed to do.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...
>


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.

I miss the newsletter they used to do a long time ago.  It was good for 
announcing things like this.

Dale

:-)  :-)