Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Default profile question
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:05:45
Message-Id: 48B9E053.2090605@bellsouth.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Default profile question by "Tomáš Krasničan"
1 Tomáš Krasničan wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > you can manage your /etc/make.profile symlink by eselect (emerge -av
5 > eselect) tool.
6 >
7 > "Eselect is a tool for administration and configuration on Gentoo
8 > systems. It provides consistent interface and tool names."
9 >
10 > eselect profile list - lists available profiles on your system
11 > eselect profile set <num> - select a profile for portage to use
12 >
13 >
14 > CJoeB wrote / napísal(a):
15 >> Hi all,
16 >>
17 >> I just did an emerge --sync and when I did 'emerge --pretend --update
18 >> --deep world', I got told that my profile was deprecated.
19 >>
20 >> I was told to run the following steps:
21 >>
22 >> # cd /etc/
23 >> # rm make.profile
24 >> # ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 make.profile
25 >>
26 >>
27 >> I just want to make sure that if I do this, nothing will get broken
28 >> or if there are any "gotchas". If anyone has some words of wisdom, I
29 >> would appreciate it.
30 >>
31 >> Thanks in advance.
32 >>
33 >> Colleen
34 >>
35 >
36 >
37
38 And I have been using the 2008 profile for a while with no issues. You
39 can use a 2007 profile if they are not to old yet.
40
41 Hope that helps.
42
43 Dale
44
45 :-) :-)