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On 2013-02-10, Jarry wrote: |
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> Hi gentoo-users, |
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> today after syncing portage tree I tried to update my system, |
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> but I was "greeted" with message: |
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> !!! Your current profile is deprecated and not supported anymore. |
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> !!! Use eselect profile to update your profile. |
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> !!! Please upgrade to the following profile if possible: |
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> default/linux/amd64/13.0 |
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> So I reverted to previous snapshot just to see what I had before |
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> ("eselect profile list" did not show any selected). Till today |
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> I had "default/linux/amd64/10.0/server". To my big surprise, |
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> there is no "server" profile for "default/linux/amd64/13.0". |
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> So is server-profile not suported anymore??? I hope devs had |
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> good reason for this, but anyway a change like *this* should |
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> definitely be communicated with users in advance... |
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> Right now I'm not sure if Gentoo is not supported for server |
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> at all or "13.0" is substitution for "10.0/server". But before |
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> there were pure "10.0" and "10.0/server" profiles. So it seems |
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> to me server profile was simply removed without any substitution. |
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No, the only reason the server profile existed was to have the name |
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"server" on it. Debate on the -dev list quickly led to the conclusion |
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that there was no point in keeping a separate "server" profile (we |
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already have the base profiles which are quite minimalistic, so they |
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*are* what the server profile should be, anyway). |
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In fact, if you are going to ask "they why did we have two different |
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profiles", well, that's how the discussion got to the point where the |
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decision was to ditch the /server profile. |
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From what I remember, differences were only a *couple* USE flags. So |
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just sitch to the base profile. |
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Now this could have used a news item, yes. |
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Nuno Silva (aka njsg) |
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http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/ |