Bug 63954

Summary:	bootstrap.sh needs option to add '--noreplace' to 'emerge' commands
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) <agaffney>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-13 18:40:56 UTC

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has ever had something interrupt a bootstrap process about 15 minutes from finishing. Currently, the entire bootstrap process would have to be restarted.

If an option were added to the bootstrap script that added '--noreplace' to all calls to emerge, this would effectively bypass the packages that were already built as part of the bootstrap (atleast, I think it would). Since it would be an optional flag, it shouldn't cause mysterious problems with packages not getting built/upgraded during a bootstrap. I can't think of any reason to not add this, although others may have some good reasons. Flame away!

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-09-13 21:47:08 UTC

use the -r flag from the beginning

Comment 2 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-13 22:29:41 UTC

Ah, I was looking in bootstrap.sh. I wasn't aware there was a new bootstrap-cascade.sh script.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-09-14 08:43:26 UTC

once we've proven the cascade version a bit more it will become 'bootstrap.sh'