Johannes Rosenberger <gen...@jorsn.eu> [17-02-20 17:06]: > On 20.02.2017 03:37, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am a little confused... > > > > In search for the reason my new root has no /etc/portage/profile > > but an /etc/portage/make.profile on this documemnt: > > https://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/man/portage.5.html > > I found this ywo lines > > > > /etc/portage/make.profile/ or /etc/make.profile/ > > site-specific overrides go in /etc/portage/profile/ > > > > (My profile is set correctly) > > Does this mean that make.profile is totally identical to > > make.profile, but if you want site-specific overrides you need > > to have profile instead of make.profile? > > > > Do I need to create /etc/portage/profile if it is not there? > > > > Nonetheless the listing below implies, that they are equivaltent. > > Or ? > > > > Cheers > > Meino > make.profile is a symlink to your profile, so you shouldn't edit > anything in there. It is managed by 'eselect profile' and i guess that > /etc/make.profile is the old location, like with make.conf which used to > be in /etc but is now in /etc/portage. > If you want to manually override anything in your profile that is not > covered by the other files in /etc/portage, e.g. unmask useflags, then > you use /etc/portage/profile. Everything there has higher precedence > than things in make.profile. >
Hi Johannes, ...I was irritated bu the header line of the linked article and the fact, that /etc/portage/profile didn't exist in my installation. I added the directory by hand and hope it is all ok now... Thanks for your posting! :) Cheers Meino
