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From: Joseph <syscon@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:18:23
Message-Id: 20080425181812.GC6385@syscon2.inet
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles? by Mark Knecht
1 # eselect profile list
2
3 follow this guide to update profile:
4 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml#doc_chap3
5
6 and:
7 # emerge -uDNav world
8 that should work.
9
10 --
11 #Joseph
12 GPG KeyID: ED0E1FB7
13
14 On 04/25/08 10:39, Mark Knecht wrote:
15 [snip
16 >
17 >I ran emerge --sync which ran correctly as far as I could tell at the
18 >time. I then tried emerge -pvDuN system and was greeted with a message
19 >about how the profile wasn't set and the system couldn't/wouldn't
20 >perform an emerge. /etc/make.profile was pointing at a 2005 profile.
21 >When I looked in at profiles that were available there were only 2006
22 >& 2007 profiles.
23 >
24 >Did this machine just get messed up over time and I didn't notice or
25 >did emerge --sync remove the profile from the system thus breaking
26 >everything?
27 >
28 >Thanks,
29 >Mark
30 >--
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32 >
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