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On 2021-10-13, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 9:01 PM Matt Connell <matthewdconnell@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Tue, 2021-10-12 at 21:14 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> > no profile selected |
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>> I'm surprised you had gotten this far without a profile selected. |
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>> Maybe you had previously selected one that was deprecated at some point |
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>> and removed from the list? |
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> Profile selection is implemented as a symlink from |
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> /etc/portage/make.profile. If you move your repository, then you need |
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> to re-select the profile since the symlink will be broken. |
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Indeed. And the failure that produces is not at all graceful. |
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I spent a little time trying to figure out where in the Wiki or docs |
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that the rsync -> git migration steps should be documented, but I |
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didn't find anyplace that looked like the right home for that info. |
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> Probably doesn't need to be a symlink, or in the repo, which is I'm |
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> guessing how funtoo does mix-ins though I haven't actually checked |
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> (just create a custom profile with the appropriate parent entries). |
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> The Gentoo standard though is a symlink. |
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