Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 27 October 2009 01:31:27 Harry Putnam wrote: > >> My profile has been >> ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 >> >> starting an update system today I'm told my profile is depricated and >> to update to default/linux/x86/10.0 >> >> I've forgotten about how this is done. Is it just a matter of >> >> ln -sf >> /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0 /etc/make.profile ? >> > > yes > > > >> Or does it involve something like a major regrind of every package? >> > > no > > > >> A quick google with site:gentoo.org "change profile" shows dozens of >> hits in forum messages, but I didn't notice a HOWTO or concise >> walk-thru. >> > > It's in the gentoo docs - remember that long thing you read when you > installed > gentoo the first time, and probably haven't read again? yes, that one :-) > > All a profile does is specify some default standard packages for system, > default USE flags and some other various bits and pieces. Once you have set > your make.conf up the way you want, very little in the way of profile changes > affect you. > > If you find forum posts that go on about large re-emerges of world and other > nonsense, well you should understand that such comments represent the average > level of cluelessness of your average forum user and you should treat it as > such > > > >
Yep, I synced the tree, did the profile change and I think I had like two upgrades. I'm pretty sure I would have had those even if I hadn't changed the profile. It is possible to have a lot of packages with changes but not to likely. I subscribe to -dev so I can see most of the screw-ups that are headed my way. Let's not get started on that hal and xorg-server thing again tho. That one surprised me for sure. Dale :-) :-)
