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From: Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:35:56
Message-Id: 9acccfe50804290935h38aeb71dw613988e6343ae834@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008 by Neil Bothwick
1 On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2
3 > On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:31:05 -0500, reader@×××××××.com wrote:
4 >
5 > > How might I manage to change the current profile from x86/2006 to
6 > > x86/2008
7 >
8 > Change the /etc/make.profile symlink or use eselect profile.
9 >
10 > > That option is of course not available currently at
11 > > /usr/portage/profiles.
12 >
13 > 2008 hasn't been released yet. Switch to 2007.0 for now, then it will be
14 > less of a change when 2008.0 is released.
15 >
16 > Hmmm. I may have read this latest post just in time. My system contains
17 /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop and I had just linked
18 /etc/make.profile to it and synced up. I was about to emerge world -- it
19 was
20 going to rebuild 124 packages (a lot of kde stuff for one thing).
21
22 I think I'll go back to 2007 for now....
23
24 The question: if it hasn't been released, what is this profile doing on my
25 system, and how am I supposed to know?
26
27 ++ kevin
28
29
30 --
31 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>