Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Friday 25 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> > Thanks. I tried that and had some problem. don't remember at this
>  > point what it was. Anyway, since it wasn't clear I could fix it in a
>  > few minutes I brought the machine home with me so maybe this weekend
>  > I can find some time to fire it up, fix the link, and get started on
>  > updates. We'll see.
>  >
>  > I wish it didn't completely remove the profile but just gave you a
>  > warning that you were using an outdated profile like it used to in
>  > the old days.
>
>  I remember needing a custom profile for something about 18 months ago. I
>  don't have that machine any more, but I'm sure I put it in my personal
>  overlay and it worked just fine. There's nothing special about a
>  profile, it's just a directory with standard files in it and parent
>  profiles. If you recreate it or get the old one out of an archive,
>  store it any old arb place you feel like and symlink make.profile to it
>
Really I had only about 5 minutes to look at this. she asked me almost
as I was walking out the door to drive home. (My parents always do
things like that!) I hoped that I'd get lucky, emerge --sync, emerge
-DuN world and 6 hours later, when I got home, ssh in and see how much
got finished. It didn't work out so I just brought the machine back
with me.

This is not a big deal really and I was just sort of surprised that
emerge --sync would remove something that caused such a big ugly
message. I'm fine that it works that way and I have no problem fixing
the machine. This email was really more about my education than the
work.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Mark
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