Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: "Marcus D. Hanwell" <cryos@g.o>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] WTF did I do?
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:53:40
Message-Id: 200703091351.40089.cryos@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] WTF did I do? by Mark Haney
1 On Friday 09 March 2007 13:38:54 Mark Haney wrote:
2 > I come in this morning and do an emerge --sync and an emerge -upD world
3 > to see if there are any new packages hanging out there (I'm actually
4 > just testing out ViewPortageX in KDE, but that's a whole other story)
5 > and I get this message:
6 >
7 > !!! ARCH is not set... Are you missing the '/etc/make.profile' symlink?
8 > !!! Is the symlink correct? Is your portage tree complete?
9 >
10 > I did an update to kdelibs yesterday, but haven't done anything with
11 > portage since. According to the emerge --pretend there is an update to
12 > portage, but I can't get to it because of this message.
13 >
14 > I did double check to see if the make.profile symlink was gone, but it's
15 > there.
16 >
17 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 Feb 21 13:29 make.profile ->
18 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2007.0/
19 >
20 > So, what the bloody heck did I do?
21 >
22 Remove the symlink and make one to a supported profile. 2007.0 is not out yet,
23 you should be using 2006.1.
24
25 rm /etc/make.profile
26 ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.1 /etc/make.profile
27
28 Then all will be well again.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] WTF did I do? Mark Haney <mhaney@××××××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] WTF did I do? Jean-Marc Hengen <hengenj@×××××××××××.de>