Bug 301640

Summary:	force emerge @preserved-rebuild even if some packages are lacking
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Helmut Jarausch <jarausch>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	esigra, kingjon3377, zeekec
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287900
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	328343
Bug Blocks:	144480, 240323

Description Helmut Jarausch 2010-01-20 16:26:39 UTC

Hi,
sometimes some packages cannot be re-emerged (currently e.g.
app-office/kexi)
In that case emerge @preserved-rebuild cannot be persuaded to do
any other upgrades (currently nearly 100 packages due to a new jpeg
library)
It would be nice if there were an option to tell emerge to re-emerge
anything that can be done (not depending on those packages which cannot
be re-emerged currently)

I am using portage-2.2_rc61

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2010-01-21 05:46:15 UTC

We can do this by tagging the set's atoms as "optional".

Comment 2 Erik Zeek 2010-10-23 14:00:37 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> It would be nice if there were an option to tell emerge to re-emerge
> anything that can be done (not depending on those packages which cannot
> be re-emerged currently)

Isn't that what --keep-going does?  I've used it for this in the past.

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2010-10-23 14:07:08 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Isn't that what --keep-going does?  I've used it for this in the past.

No, not exactly. What's really needed is a way to cope better with unsatisfied dependencies, as requested in bug 328343.