* Alan Mackenzie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [24.07.08 23:02]: > Hi, Sebastian, >
I don't know where it is explained, but I try to explain what I know until now about this. > I'm still very confused by profiles, though I obviously need to get to > grips with them. What is a profile, _EXACTLY_? Where in the > documentation can I find a description which says something like ".... a > profile is a directory which contains the following files" and then lists > them? There are lots of instructions to "set foobar in your profile", > but the only description I've found so far just says "A profile is a > building block for any Gentoo system" in the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook, > and then goes on to describe what a profile _does_ in abstract terms but > not what it _is_ in terms of directories and files. That section says > that I "have" the option of choosing another profile too, but not how to > recognise a profile from a random directory or file. I don't understand > how to select it. > You select your profile by choosing a directory (in any depth) under /usr/portage/profiles link it to /etc/make.profile. > I have a link > > /etc/make.profile -> /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 > > , set up as suggested in the handbook. Is .../2008.0 my profile? Is > this valid? There doesn't appear to be anything of substance there. > your profile is default/linux/x86/2008.0 > On the other hand the handbook says a few lines lowere, I should select a > profile with: > > # ln -snf /usr/portage/profiles/<profile name> /etc/make.profile. > > In that directory, /usr/portage/profiles, there are both subdirectories > (e.g. default-linux) and some files (e.g., make.defaults, > packages.builds). Is "<profile name>" one of the directories rather than > a file? It looks almost as though there's some sort of hierarchical > inheritance going on. > portage recurses upwards to /usr/portage/profiles and read all files in the directories on the way upwards. So every file in /etc/portage/profiles is member of all profiles and what is found on the way down to your choosen directory is *added* to your specific profile. So by choosing a profile you choose a stepwise "patch way" to the files in /usr/portage/profile > Please tell me that this is clearly explained somewhere. > Sorry no links I know of. > Thanks! > HTH Sebastian BTT: What does "euse -i cups" state? -- " Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. " Karl Marx [EMAIL PROTECTED]@N GÜNTHER mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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