Re: [gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation

[Felix Miata]

Neil Bothwick composed on 2015-08-04 18:44 (UTC+0100):

> On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 13:12:42 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
 
>> 6-# emerge portage
>> 	This produced a longish warning:
>> !!! /etc/make.profile is not a symlink and will probably prevent most
>> merges. !!! It should point into a profile within /usr/portage/profiles/
>> !!! (You can safely ignore this message when syncing. It's harmless.)
>> !!! If you have just changed your profile configuration, you should
>> revert !!! backto the previous configuration. Due to your current
>> profile being !!! invalid, allowed actions are limited to --help,
>> --info, --sync, and !!! --version.
 
>> So, /etc/make.profile exists, but it's a symlink to a non-existant
>> ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop. Is all I need
>> to do to be able to proceed to change the symlink to point
>> to ...x86/13.0/des...? Any suggestions or words of wisdom?
 
> The message says it's not a symlink, not that it points nowhere. It may
> be that your cloning method dereferenced it when copying. Just reset it
> with "eselect profile list" followed by "eselect profile set".

I think we have a n00b communication failure here. :-p

These are the current states of source and target
	(post-emerge --sync, emerge portage, and eselect profile set 6 on target):

Source:
# uname -a > out
Linux kt400 2.6.37-gentoo-r4 #1 Sun May 15 19:32:50 EDT 2011 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
# mount | grep ' / ' >> out
/dev/sda7 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)
# blkid /dev/sda29 >> out
/dev/sda29: LABEL="gentoon" UUID="eb3b5ce7-1675-4356-a508-ba6c30e590e0" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" 
# ls -l /etc/mak* | grep -v *conf.1* &>>out
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 670 May 16  2011 /etc/make.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 421 Apr 26  2011 /etc/make.conf.01
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 544 May 15  2011 /etc/make.conf.12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 588 May 15  2011 /etc/make.conf.13
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 677 May 15  2011 /etc/make.conf.14
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 698 May 16  2011 /etc/make.conf.15
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 670 May 16  2011 /etc/make.conf.16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 421 Apr 26  2011 /etc/make.conf.catalyst
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  40 Apr 26  2011 /etc/make.globals -> ../usr/share/portage/config/make.globals
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  54 May 16  2011 /etc/make.profile -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop
# ls -l /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/* &>>out
-rw-r--r-- 1 portage portage    2 Oct 22  2009 /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/eapi
-rw-r--r-- 1 portage portage   34 Aug  6  2009 /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/parent
/usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/gnome:
total 2
-rw-r--r-- 1 portage portage  2 Mar 29  2010 eapi
-rw-r--r-- 1 portage portage 43 Mar 29  2010 parent
/usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/kde:
total 2
-rw-r--r-- 1 portage portage  2 Mar 29  2010 eapi
-rw-r--r-- 1 portage portage 41 Mar 29  2010 parent

Target:
# uname -a > out
Linux kt400 2.6.37-gentoo-r4 #1 Sun May 15 19:32:50 EDT 2011 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
# mount | grep ' / '
/dev/sda29 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)
# blkid /dev/sda29
/dev/sda29: LABEL="gentoon" UUID="eb3b5ce7-1675-4356-a508-ba6c30e590e0" TYPE="ext3" 
# ls -l /etc/mak* | grep -v *conf.1*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 670 May 16  2011 /etc/make.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 421 Apr 26  2011 /etc/make.conf.01
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 544 May 15  2011 /etc/make.conf.12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 588 May 15  2011 /etc/make.conf.13
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 677 May 15  2011 /etc/make.conf.14
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 698 May 16  2011 /etc/make.conf.15
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 670 May 16  2011 /etc/make.conf.16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 421 Apr 26  2011 /etc/make.conf.catalyst
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  40 Apr 26  2011 /etc/make.globals -> ../usr/share/portage/config/make.globals
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  58 Aug  4 13:30 /etc/make.profile -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/13.0/desktop/kde
# ls -l /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/13.0/desktop/kde/*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    2 Mar 19  2014 /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/13.0/desktop/kde/eapi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   41 Jan 18  2013 /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/13.0/desktop/kde/parent
/usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd:
total 2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2 Mar 19  2014 eapi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40 Oct 19  2013 parent

In case it might be useful, .bash_history:
Up until I started today's thread:
http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/bash_history-kt400N.txt
From back when I installed 4 years ago, annotated at the time:
http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/bash_history.05
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