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Apparently, though unproven, at 17:38 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Kevin O'Gorman |
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did opine thusly: |
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> > /etc/make.profile is a symlink to something in $PORTDIR/profiles/ and |
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> > that |
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> Odd. Not on my system, it's not. It's a directory with two entries: |
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> eapi: a text file, length 2, with contents "2\n". |
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> parent: a text file with two lines: |
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> .. |
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> ../../../../../../targets/desktop/kde |
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> The parent is obviously not relative to the /etc/make.profile directory. |
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> Portage works, |
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> pretty much, although I have an unbuildable essential package at the moment |
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> with a bug just filed. Eix says my portage is 2.1.9.42. |
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You ls'ed the target of the symlink, not the symlink itself. Omit the trailing |
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slash in the argument to ls and you'll see it. |
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Either that, or your system is busted. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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