John Myers posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:34:20 -0800:
> I was just running 'emerge -p depclean' to see what portage thinks it doesn't > need anymore, to tune my world file, and it told me > > !!! You have no system list. > !!! Proceeding will break your installation. > > This seemed a little odd to me. > > What file is the system list stored in? I thought it was somewhere > in /usr/portage/profiles, but I couldn't find anything there, either on this > box, or on my (x86) local rsync server (which still has its system list). > > both machines are running portage-2.0.53_rc7 and accept ~arch The system list will be in your profile, which is /supposed/ to be the directory pointed to by the /etc/make.profile symlink. Normally, that symlink will point to somewhere in the portage tree, under profiles, which would mean a subdir of /usr/portage/profiles (typically /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.1 or something similar), if you haven't customized the path to your $PORTDIR. Assuming the symlink is pointing to the correct spot in your portage tree, if the spot (or your entire portage tree) is somehow empty, an emerge sync should correct the issue. Assuming /usr/portage is still there, perhaps your /etc/make.conf or the symlink mentioned above got deleted or corrupted. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- [email protected] mailing list
