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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating AMD64 17.0 profiles?
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 08:49:39
Message-Id: a0acd592556b172d3986dc35f3e2ee8bfab7e635.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating AMD64 17.0 profiles? by Fabian Groffen
1 On Tue, 2020-11-10 at 09:41 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > On 10-11-2020 09:34:52 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
3 > > On Tue, 2020-11-10 at 08:55 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
4 > > > On 09-11-2020 19:38:28 +0000, Alexey Sokolov wrote:
5 > > > > Hi Fabian
6 > > > > I tried to migrate my prefix to 17.1, and there are issues.
7 > > > >
8 > > > > 1) unsymlink-lib requires "--root ~/gentoo" and otherwise produces an
9 > > > > error "/usr/lib is a real directory! was the migration done already?"
10 > > >
11 > > > I think unsymlink-lib doesn't have Prefix support, but in addition,
12 > > > what unsymlink-lib is trying to achieve, is not a thing perhaps on
13 > > > Prefix.
14 > > >
15 > > > A prefix system (at least all of mine) doesn't have libXX or lib/XX
16 > > > (a.k.a. multilib) directories. The /usr-split was long ago removed,
17 > > > and thus what we have is:
18 > > >
19 > > > lib -> usr/lib
20 > > >
21 > > > Now, SYMLINK_LIB=no seems to split into lib and lib64, but lib64 does
22 > > > not exist on Prefix systems.
23 > > >
24 > >
25 > > So what you're saying is that you've had the wrong value of SYMLINK_LIB
26 > > for ages, and now you've created a meaningless 17.1 profile that chnages
27 > > it but isn't actually supposed to change anything, correct?
28 >
29 > I guess, because the amd64 17.0 profile is deprecated with force, and I
30 > had to do something ...
31
32 Now that's a lie. Only the regular amd64 profiles are deprecated.
33 There are no deprecation notices e.g. in the x32 profile or prefix
34 profiles.
35
36 --
37 Best regards,
38 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating AMD64 17.0 profiles? Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>