On 2021-10-13, Rich Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 9:01 PM Matt Connell <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Tue, 2021-10-12 at 21:14 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >> > no profile selected >> >> I'm surprised you had gotten this far without a profile selected. >> Maybe you had previously selected one that was deprecated at some point >> and removed from the list? >> > > Profile selection is implemented as a symlink from > /etc/portage/make.profile. If you move your repository, then you need > to re-select the profile since the symlink will be broken.
Indeed. And the failure that produces is not at all graceful. I spent a little time trying to figure out where in the Wiki or docs that the rsync -> git migration steps should be documented, but I didn't find anyplace that looked like the right home for that info. > Probably doesn't need to be a symlink, or in the repo, which is I'm > guessing how funtoo does mix-ins though I haven't actually checked > (just create a custom profile with the appropriate parent entries). > The Gentoo standard though is a symlink.
