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On 8/12/2010, at 11:10pm, Trifu Catalin Florin wrote: |
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> On one of the systems, the symlink between /etc/make.profile was broken. ... |
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> and I'm a little bit scared because I couldn't find anything in the bash history that could have give me a clue of the mistake I have made which lead to the destruction of that symlink. This would be my first question, did anyone experienced the same 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 the system again. ... Can anyone tell me a brief explanation of what a profile is and how does it affect my system? What is the difference between the |
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> profiles listed under /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 and those listed under /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0 ? |
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The symlink probably got broken because the profiles are part of the information that Portage updates when you `emerge sync` - i.e. they're in /usr/portage/profiles/ and the whole of /usr/portage/ is prone to being updated during the sync. |
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If I'm reading your forums posting correctly I'd guess you were using a 2007 profile, and that's no longer in Portage. |
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This is nothing to get in a panic about or worry about or blame yourself for. |
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Just `eselect profile list` & `eselect profile set`, forget about it and move onto the next thing. You have FAR more to worry about, and will need to give us a LOT more information if you want to upgrade this machine to current and want our help. |
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As Alan tried to say 2008 and 10 refer to the "publication year" of the profile. Profiles contain stuff like default USE (e.g. "/usr/portage/profiles/base/package.use") flags and hard-pinned versions of certain packages. For normal use you don't need to know no more than this - I don't and I've been using Gentoo 7 years. |
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Stroller. |
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