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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 27 October 2009 01:31:27 Harry Putnam wrote: |
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>> My profile has been |
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>> ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 |
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>> starting an update system today I'm told my profile is depricated and |
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>> to update to default/linux/x86/10.0 |
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>> I've forgotten about how this is done. Is it just a matter of |
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>> ln -sf |
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>> /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0 /etc/make.profile ? |
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> yes |
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>> Or does it involve something like a major regrind of every package? |
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> no |
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>> A quick google with site:gentoo.org "change profile" shows dozens of |
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>> hits in forum messages, but I didn't notice a HOWTO or concise |
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>> walk-thru. |
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> It's in the gentoo docs - remember that long thing you read when you installed |
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> gentoo the first time, and probably haven't read again? yes, that one :-) |
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> All a profile does is specify some default standard packages for system, |
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> default USE flags and some other various bits and pieces. Once you have set |
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> your make.conf up the way you want, very little in the way of profile changes |
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> affect you. |
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> If you find forum posts that go on about large re-emerges of world and other |
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> nonsense, well you should understand that such comments represent the average |
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> level of cluelessness of your average forum user and you should treat it as |
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> such |
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Yep, I synced the tree, did the profile change and I think I had like |
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two upgrades. I'm pretty sure I would have had those even if I hadn't |
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changed the profile. |
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It is possible to have a lot of packages with changes but not to |
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likely. I subscribe to -dev so I can see most of the screw-ups that are |
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headed my way. Let's not get started on that hal and xorg-server thing |
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again tho. That one surprised me for sure. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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