On Wed, 2 Sep 2015, walt wrote:
> Thank you. I've been running systemd for months and this is the first
> time I've heard about systemd profiles. I'm not using either gnome or
> kde, so should I use default/linux/amd64/13.0/systemd, which doesn't
> seem to care if I'm running a desktop machine or a headless server?
>
I just had a closer look of the profile and it's definitely more suitable
for servers. However do remember that this is gentoo so we can work around
that.
Easy way: stay on the desktop profile and copy all of the systemd profile
files into /etc/portage:
mkdir -p /etc/portage/profile
cp /usr/portage/profiles/targets/systemd/* /etc/portage/profile
A bit harder (but way more interesting!): roll your own profile. Never
done this before and the documentation is a bit scarce, but this seems to
do the right thing:
# mkdir -p /etc/portage/repos.conf
# cat >/etc/portage/repos.conf/local.conf <<EOF
[local]
location = /usr/local/portage
auto-sync = no
EOF
# mkdir -p /usr/local/portage
# cd /usr/local/portage
# mkdir metadata profiles
# echo -e "masters = gentoo\nprofile-formats = portage-2"
>metadata/layout.conf
# cd profiles
# echo "local" >repo_name
# echo -e "amd64\tdefault/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/systemd\texp"
>profiles.desc
# mkdir -p default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/systemd
# cd default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/systemd
# echo "gentoo:default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop" >parent
# echo "gentoo:default/linux/amd64/13.0/systemd" >>parent
Then eselect your new profile and emerge -uDNva @world.
