[gentoo-user] Re: Profile listings

[James]

Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes:


> % PORTAGE_PROFILE=/var/portage/profiles/default/linux/arm/13.0/armv7a eix
-c --system
> [snip]
> Found 42 matches.
>
> The nil return before was caused by search in one of the arch
> directories, which are not complete profiles but data to be used by
> profiles. It is a little confusing, but if you stick to profiles under
> default/linux you should get useful information.


Interestingly, you used "var" instead of "usr". From earlier, Martin used

"PORTAGE_PROFILE=/usr/portage/profiles/$PROFILE eix -c --system"


Granted "$PROFILE" needed expansion, but he put "/usr" and now
you have it working with "/var" at the head of the path-string.

Interestingly enough, "/var/portage" is not even a dir, yet the 
path-string you used does work.

' PORTAGE_PROFILE=/var/portage/profiles/default/linux/arm/13.0/armv7a eix -c
--system'

Which does work nicely.....


Care to explain? 


James