Alan McKinnon wrote:
I figured it out! /etc/make.profile was linked to /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/2008.0 rather thanOn Friday 08 August 2008 19:58:46 Eric Martin wrote:On one of my boxes, eix shows every package as (*) which is testing for my current arch but stable on some other. emerge --info reports x86 as my arch, so I don't know what the problem is. I don't think it's a huge problem as it's just an annoyance but I might be missing something. I don't know where to start on google / forums so I figured I'd start here.I recall something similar happening to me a while ago, on a disconnected box that hadn't been updated for 6 months. I was getting weird status symbols just like you after a sync. In my case, an upgrade to the latest ~arch portage fixed it.You seem to be running purely x86 right? I assume as a first step you have done all the sensible things - remerge latest stable portage, emerge --sync, checked /etc/portage/* for silly masks that you forgot about?
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/2007.0(as all of my other machines are). Changing that solved it. What I don't get is why that would break things...
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