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From: Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@××××.nl>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: /lib32/* missing after system upgrade
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:44:50
Message-Id: 200701092141.26431.harmgeerts@home.nl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] /lib32/* missing after system upgrade by Ryan Sims
1 On Tuesday 09 January 2007 17:20, Ryan Sims wrote:
2 > On 1/9/07, Piotr Jaroszyñski <peper@g.o> wrote:
3 > > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 16:27, Einar S. Ids¸ wrote:
4 > > > Some further info: I just remembered that I also changed the symlink
5 > > > for /etc/make.profile. For some reason I changed it to point to
6 > > > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0, which doesn't seem
7 > > > right... I suppose I should rather have used
8 > > > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.1/(desktop|server)?
9 > > >
10 > > > Did I just stupidly break my system?
11 > >
12 > > You have switched to non-multilib profile... Switch it back asap and
13 > > reemerge whatever you emerged on invalid profile.
14 >
15 > Is that possible?
16 >
17 > from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-amd64-faq.xml#multilib :
18 > "Currently you cannot switch from a no-multilib to a multilib-enabled
19 > profile, so think over your decision twice before you use the
20 > no-multilib profile."
21
22 The reason it's not possible is because it breaks the system.
23 portage does not prevent you from changing to an incompatible profile.
24
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: /lib32/* missing after system upgrade Ryan Sims <rwsims@×××××.com>