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From: Mihai Tanasescu <mihai@×××××.ro>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge ARCH not set..symlink never ending problem
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:10:10
Message-Id: 4B519068.1080000@duras.ro
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge ARCH not set..symlink never ending problem by Peter Ruskin
1 Peter Ruskin wrote:
2 > On Saturday 16 January 2010 09:08:35 Mihai Tanasescu wrote:
3 >
4 >> I tried doing emerge dmidecode for example and got:
5 >> # emerge dmidecode
6 >>
7 >> --- Invalid atom in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
8 >>
9 >>> =media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20091124
10 >>>
11 >> !!! ARCH is not set... Are you missing the /etc/make.profile
12 >> symlink? !!! Is the symlink correct? Is your portage tree
13 >> complete?
14 >>
15 >> then I went google-ing and found on some forums that I must make:
16 >> emerge --sync
17 >> rm /etc/make.profile
18 >> remake the link
19 >>
20 >> I did all this...
21 >>
22 >> gate ~ # ls -la /etc/make.profile
23 >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Jan 16 01:02 /etc/make.profile ->
24 >> /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0
25 >>
26 >
27 > ls -la /etc/make.profile
28 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 54 2009-10-28
29 > 21:35 /etc/make.profile -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop
30 >
31 >
32 >
33 I remade the link..still the problem loves to bug me..
34
35 gate etc # ls -la /etc/make.profile
36 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 54 Jan 16 12:08 /etc/make.profile ->
37 ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop
38
39 gate etc # emerge eselect
40 --- Invalid atom in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
41 >=media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20091124
42 !!! ARCH is not set... Are you missing the /etc/make.profile symlink?
43 !!! Is the symlink correct? Is your portage tree complete?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge ARCH not set..symlink never ending problem Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>