Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles

2007-03-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 24 March 2007 06:30:58 Dale wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles

2007-03-25 Thread Dale
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: emerge --metadata is completely unrelated. You are probably speaking of one of the issues at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/common-problems.xml See `man emerge` to see what --metadata does... I just know it fixed it. I was told on the forums to

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles

2007-03-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:16:47 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: There's no point, because they'll only be copied back the next time you sync. Thanks for the response. I guess I was just looking to keep my hard drive and free of superfluous files as possible. This tip will keep the whole

[gentoo-user] Question re: profiles

2007-03-23 Thread Colleen Beamer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, This may be a stupid question, but hey, better safe than sorry. I'm updating my laptop, which I haven't used in a while. After syncing, I went to update and got a message saying that my arch was not set asking whether my profile was linked

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles

2007-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:05:25 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: /etc/make.profile is a symlink to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1 (or whatever) Is it safe to remove older profiles? There's no point, because they'll only be copied back the next time you sync. -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles

2007-03-23 Thread Mick
On Friday 23 March 2007 20:05, Colleen Beamer wrote: gpgkeys: key 04428ACF77E97BA2 not found on keyserver Hi all, This may be a stupid question, but hey, better safe than sorry. I'm updating my laptop, which I haven't used in a while. After syncing, I went to update and got a message

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles

2007-03-23 Thread Dale
Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi all, This may be a stupid question, but hey, better safe than sorry. I'm updating my laptop, which I haven't used in a while. After syncing, I went to update and got a message saying that my arch was not set asking whether my profile was linked correctly. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles

2007-03-23 Thread Colleen Beamer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:05:25 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: /etc/make.profile is a symlink to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1 (or whatever) Is it safe to remove older profiles? There's no point, because

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles

2007-03-23 Thread Colleen Beamer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles

2007-03-23 Thread Dale
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