Bug 1083

Summary:	Emerge refinement
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael Lang <mwlang>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	carpaski
Priority:	High
Version:	1.0 RC6 r14
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michael Lang 2002-03-11 19:20:30 UTC

If one does an emerge on multiple packages and one of the packages fails, then
all remaining packages are not emerged.

For example, I had a partially downloaded mozilla package and wanted to emerge
several packages overnight so I entered:

emerge evolution mozilla xchat fluxbox 

evolution emerged successfully, mozilla failed on bad tarball in which user was
instructed to delete the tarball.  xchat and fluxbox were never emerged because
of the mozilla error.

This adds a level of robustness to the emerge, allowing administrators to deal
only with problem packages (i.e. will allow administrators to start large
emerges over the weekend and come back Monday and not see that emerge failed to
build most of his packages).

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-09-03 12:52:57 UTC

Problem is that the failed package is likely a dependency for at least one other.