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Hi all |
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I'm struggling for several weeks to get my systems up to date. I have two |
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systems which haven't been updated for an year or so. |
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I have also opened a topic on the gentoo forum that can be found at this |
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address: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-852377-highlight-.html |
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As you will see in that topic, the error was related to a circular dependency |
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between gcc and glibc. I didn't manage to solve the problem but tonight I had an |
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other error. |
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On one of the systems, the symlink between /etc/make.profile was broken. I have |
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discovered when I have tried to do emerge --update --deep world. I don't know |
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why |
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and I'm a little bit scared because I couldn't find anything in the bash history |
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that could have give me a clue of the mistake I have made which lead to the |
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destruction of |
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that symlink. This would be my first question, did anyone experienced the same |
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problem? Does anyone has any idea of a mistake that could lead to this result? |
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I have mapped /etc/make.profile with another profile and I have tried to update |
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the system again. This time, the error thrown by portage was something related |
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to xz-utils, |
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but unfortunately I didn't copy the error. Can anyone tell me a brief |
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explanation of what a profile is and how does it affect my system? What is the |
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difference between the |
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profiles listed under /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 and those |
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listed under /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0 ? Can you please tell |
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me what should I |
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read in order to find more information about this profiles? |
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Thank you in advance! |