Bug 58914

Summary:	emerge - smarter fetch restriction handling
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jason Pfingstmann <jason>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jason Pfingstmann 2004-07-30 10:26:40 UTC

If you do any emerge that has a fetch restriction in it anywhere in the list of packages, you should be prompted to get the needed file(s) before starting the emerge process.  There should of course also be a way to override this behavior.  This would help when someone does emerge -Du world (like I just did) and gets half way down a fetch restriction for the Java SDK Docs or other restricted items.  Normally you don't watch the system emerge, you tell it to go and leave for a bit, who knows how long the system will be sitting idle while waiting for you to see the fetch restriction before continuing?  Anyway, just my 2 cents, I'm not a programmer but am doing what I can to try to contribute (even if its just bug testing & suggesting improvments.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Chris White (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-30 11:02:10 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58195 ***