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From: Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:28:35
Message-Id: 46046E86.8000703@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles by Dale
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4 Dale wrote:
5 > Colleen Beamer wrote:
6 >>
7 >>
8 >> Is it safe to remove older profiles?
9 >>
10 >> Regards,
11 >>
12 >> Colleen
13 >>
14 >
15 > I think the profiles are updated when you sync, which is why you got
16 > that error message.
17
18 This is true.
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20 You may want to either sync again or run emerge
21 > --metadata one. I seem to recall running into this and it can't update
22 > the database without that link being correct. The metadata part should
23 > fix it.
24
25 Not necessary. I just recreated the symlink to point to the correct
26 profile. Not rocket science, even for someone like me who does not have
27 a formal computer education. :-)
28
29 Thanks for your response.
30
31 Regards,
32
33 Colleen.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>