On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 25 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Thanks. I tried that and had some problem. don't remember at this > > point what it was. Anyway, since it wasn't clear I could fix it in a > > few minutes I brought the machine home with me so maybe this weekend > > I can find some time to fire it up, fix the link, and get started on > > updates. We'll see. > > > > I wish it didn't completely remove the profile but just gave you a > > warning that you were using an outdated profile like it used to in > > the old days. > > I remember needing a custom profile for something about 18 months ago. I > don't have that machine any more, but I'm sure I put it in my personal > overlay and it worked just fine. There's nothing special about a > profile, it's just a directory with standard files in it and parent > profiles. If you recreate it or get the old one out of an archive, > store it any old arb place you feel like and symlink make.profile to it > Really I had only about 5 minutes to look at this. she asked me almost as I was walking out the door to drive home. (My parents always do things like that!) I hoped that I'd get lucky, emerge --sync, emerge -DuN world and 6 hours later, when I got home, ssh in and see how much got finished. It didn't work out so I just brought the machine back with me.
This is not a big deal really and I was just sort of surprised that emerge --sync would remove something that caused such a big ugly message. I'm fine that it works that way and I have no problem fixing the machine. This email was really more about my education than the work. Thanks! Cheers, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
