Hi all,

I just did an emerge --sync and when I did 'emerge --pretend --update
--deep world', I got told that my profile was deprecated.


I was told to run the following steps:

# cd /etc/
# rm make.profile
# ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 make.profile


I just want to make sure that if I do this, nothing will get broken or
if there are any "gotchas". If anyone has some words of wisdom, I would
appreciate it.


Thanks in advance.

Colleen

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Hi,

you can manage your /etc/make.profile symlink by eselect (emerge -av
eselect) tool.


"Eselect is a tool for administration and configuration on Gentoo
systems. It provides consistent interface and tool names."


eselect profile list - lists available profiles on your system
eselect profile set <num> - select a profile for portage to use


CJoeB wrote / napÃ*sal(a):

Hi all,

I just did an emerge --sync and when I did 'emerge --pretend --update
--deep world', I got told that my profile was deprecated.


I was told to run the following steps:

# cd /etc/
# rm make.profile
# ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 make.profile


I just want to make sure that if I do this, nothing will get broken or
if there are any "gotchas". If anyone has some words of wisdom, I would
appreciate it.


Thanks in advance.

Colleen

Tomáš Krasni�an wrote:

Hi,

you can manage your /etc/make.profile symlink by eselect (emerge -av
eselect) tool.


"Eselect is a tool for administration and configuration on Gentoo
systems. It provides consistent interface and tool names."


eselect profile list - lists available profiles on your system
eselect profile set <num> - select a profile for portage to use


CJoeB wrote / napÃ*sal(a):

Hi all,

I just did an emerge --sync and when I did 'emerge --pretend --update
--deep world', I got told that my profile was deprecated.


I was told to run the following steps:

# cd /etc/
# rm make.profile
# ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 make.profile


I just want to make sure that if I do this, nothing will get broken
or if there are any "gotchas". If anyone has some words of wisdom, I
would appreciate it.


Thanks in advance.

Colleen






And I have been using the 2008 profile for a while with no issues. You
can use a 2007 profile if they are not to old yet.


Hope that helps.

Dale

:-) :-)

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:11:31 -0500, CJoeB wrote:

> I just want to make sure that if I do this, nothing will get broken or
> if there are any "gotchas". If anyone has some words of wisdom, I
> would appreciate it.

As already mentioned use eselect to manage your profiles.

Run emerge -uavDN world after changing it, as a changed profile usually
brings changed default USE flags.


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If a deaf person swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?