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On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 13:12:42 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: |
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> 2-clone the existing partition to a larger one to be the upgrade target |
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> 3-boot the target |
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> 4-note that there exists no /etc/portage/ |
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How did you clone it? It appears parts are missing. |
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> 5-# emerge --sync |
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> which warned I need to emerge portage before doing anything else |
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> 6-# emerge portage |
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> This produced a longish warning: |
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> !!! /etc/make.profile is not a symlink and will probably prevent most |
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> merges. !!! It should point into a profile within /usr/portage/profiles/ |
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> !!! (You can safely ignore this message when syncing. It's harmless.) |
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> !!! If you have just changed your profile configuration, you should |
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> revert !!! backto the previous configuration. Due to your current |
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> profile being !!! invalid, allowed actions are limited to --help, |
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> --info, --sync, and !!! --version. |
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> So, /etc/make.profile exists, but it's a symlink to a non-existant |
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> ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop. Is all I need |
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> to do to be able to proceed to change the symlink to point |
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> to ...x86/13.0/des...? Any suggestions or words of wisdom? |
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The message says it's not a symlink, not that it points nowhere. It may |
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be that your cloning method dereferenced it when copying. Just reset it |
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with "eselect profile list" followed by "eselect profile set". |
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Beware that you are likely to have many blockers, circular dependencies |
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and USE flag changes to deal with. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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