Age Old Bootstrap Resume Question...

noob^2 · n00b Joined: 29 Sep 2003 Posts: 42

If it fails while compiling glibc (distcc error) is it safe to:

Bob P · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 11:11 pm Post subject:

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Maedhros · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 11:42 pm Post subject:

The problem with emerge --resume in bootstrap, is that emerge is called up to five times. So unless you hit a failure on the last time it was called, you'll miss bits out, and then things will start to go horribly wrong...

If you can remember exactly where you got to, though, there shouldn't be any problems in commenting out part of the script.
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