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Bug 29402 - Something like `emerge --fetchfirst ebuild` might make a nice addition to portage.
Summary: Something like `emerge --fetchfirst ebuild` might make a nice addition to por...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1661
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2003-09-22 21:38 UTC by Matthew R Powell
Modified: 2011-10-30 22:35 UTC (History)
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Description Matthew R Powell 2003-09-22 21:38:22 UTC 
I would like to propose an option to portage.

I have a somewhat unreliable cable connection, and I have often started a large
installation involing many packages, and then left the machine unnattended.  I
would then return, only to find that the merge had failed do to my connection dying.

To get around this, I have been using `emerge -f ebuild && emerge ebuild` to
make sure all of the packages I need are on the local machine before I leave it
alone.

Something like `emerge --fetchfirst ebuild` might make a nice addition to portage.

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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2003-09-22 21:46:18 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1661 ***