Colleen Beamer wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Colleen Beamer wrote: > >> > >> Is it safe to remove older profiles? > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Colleen > >> > > I think the profiles are updated when you sync, which is why you got > > that error message. > > This is true. > > You may want to either sync again or run emerge > > --metadata one. I seem to recall running into this and it can't update > > the database without that link being correct. The metadata part should > > fix it. > > Not necessary. I just recreated the symlink to point to the correct > profile. Not rocket science, even for someone like me who does not have > a formal computer education. :-) > > Thanks for your response. > > Regards, > > Colleen. >
I guess some changes have been made to portage. When I ran into this a while back, it error'd out right after the sync process. I had to create the new link the run emerge --metadata so that it could finish processing the database which I guess is part two. Anyway, glad all is well. Dale :-) :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
