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From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No system list
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 07:48:52
Message-Id: 1304495240.32346.31.camel@troll
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] No system list by Neil Bothwick
1 On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 08:33 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Wed, 04 May 2011 08:43:17 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
3 >
4 > > I have a few older systems (~6-10 years in use) that have no system
5 > > list. Over the years there have been various disasters and methods of
6 > > managing the software with the result that I have had to run regenworld
7 > > amongst other things.
8 >
9 > @system is defined in the profile. Have you updated the profile on these
10 > machines? If not, it is possible that the profile they are set to useno
11 > longer exists. What does "eselect profile list" show?
12 >
13 >
14
15 No, they are really blank. I tried changing it to gnome instead of just
16 the 10.0 profile as well.
17
18 myth1 ~ # eselect profile list
19 Available profile symlink targets:
20 [1] default/linux/x86/10.0 *
21 [2] default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop
22 [3] default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/gnome
23 [4] default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/kde
24 [5] default/linux/x86/10.0/developer
25 [6] default/linux/x86/10.0/server
26 [7] hardened/linux/x86
27 [8] selinux/2007.0/x86
28 [9] selinux/2007.0/x86/hardened
29 [10] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86
30 [11] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/desktop
31 [12] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/developer
32 [13] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/hardened
33 [14] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/server
34 myth1 ~ # eselect profile set 3
35 myth1 ~ # emerge system -ep
36 emerge: 'system' is an empty set
37 emerge: no targets left after set expansion
38 myth1 ~ # eselect profile set 1
39 myth1 ~ # emerge system -ep
40 emerge: 'system' is an empty set
41 emerge: no targets left after set expansion
42 myth1 ~ #