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From: Ed W <lists@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] qmerge and friend
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:04:00
Message-Id: 4D81C5AD.7010507@wildgooses.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] qmerge and friend by Mike Frysinger
1 On 17/03/2011 01:56, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:18:39 Martin Gysel wrote:
3 >> I tied to use qmerge on my 'embedded' system (well for the moment it
4 >> runs from a usb stick...). I don't have the portage tree there nor any
5 >> profile.
6 >
7 > the profile is necessary to convey fundamental information such as ARCH and
8 > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS. and to a lesser degree, the system packages and default USE
9 > flags. without a profile, you need to manually set all of those.
10 >
11 > i guess we could tweak the qmerge code to not walk the profile if people
12 > provide ARCH and such themselves ...
13 > -mike
14
15 Is it sufficient to "fake" the profile by simply having a profile path?
16 Everything else defined in make.conf?
17
18 If not, what might be the minimal set of files in profile required? (I
19 guess they could mostly be empty?)
20
21 Cheers
22
23 Ed W

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