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From: Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge ARCH not set..symlink never ending problem
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:05:09
Message-Id: 201001161004.33214.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Emerge ARCH not set..symlink never ending problem by Mihai Tanasescu
1 On Saturday 16 January 2010 09:08:35 Mihai Tanasescu wrote:
2 > I tried doing emerge dmidecode for example and got:
3 > # emerge dmidecode
4 >
5 > --- Invalid atom in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
6 > >=media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20091124
7 >
8 > !!! ARCH is not set... Are you missing the /etc/make.profile
9 > symlink? !!! Is the symlink correct? Is your portage tree
10 > complete?
11 >
12 > then I went google-ing and found on some forums that I must make:
13 > emerge --sync
14 > rm /etc/make.profile
15 > remake the link
16 >
17 > I did all this...
18 >
19 > gate ~ # ls -la /etc/make.profile
20 > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 44 Jan 16 01:02 /etc/make.profile ->
21 > /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0
22
23 ls -la /etc/make.profile
24 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 54 2009-10-28
25 21:35 /etc/make.profile -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop
26
27
28 --
29 Peter
30 ========================================================================
31 Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.2_rc61 kernel-2.6.32-gentoo-r1
32 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ gcc(Gentoo: 4.3.4)
33 KDE: 3.5.10 Qt: 3.3.8b
34 ========================================================================

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Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge ARCH not set..symlink never ending problem Mihai Tanasescu <mihai@×××××.ro>