SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: make.conf/profile location change

2013-08-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-11 1:48 PM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: Am Sun, 11 Aug 2013 13:30:57 -0400 schrieb Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org: I just tried changing it eselect profile set 3 eselect profile set 1 and it didn't create the link in /etc/portage, it is still in /etc... Ah, then it

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: make.conf/profile location change

2013-08-12 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sun, 11 Aug 2013 21:29:41 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: [...] No. That links a file in /etc/portage to something that doesn't exist (arguments wrong way round), and the .. parent directory doesn't belong there at all: cd /etc/portage ln -s

Re: SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: make.conf/profile location change

2013-08-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 12/08/2013 12:21, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-08-11 1:48 PM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: Am Sun, 11 Aug 2013 13:30:57 -0400 schrieb Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org: I just tried changing it eselect profile set 3 eselect profile set 1 and it didn't create the link in /etc/portage,

Re: SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: make.conf/profile location change

2013-08-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-12 6:48 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/08/2013 12:21, Tanstaafl wrote: So, to do this manually just: ~ ln -s make.profile /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/13.0 Please read the man page for ln. You have the arguments in reverse. Yeah, already

[gentoo-user] Question re: make.conf/profile location change

2013-08-11 Thread Tanstaafl
Hello, Was reviewing older news items and was wondering about this one: # eselect news read 12 2012-09-09-make.conf-and-make.profile-move Titlemake.conf and make.profile move Author Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto jmbsvice...@gentoo.org Posted 2012-09-09 Revision 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: make.conf/profile location change

2013-08-11 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sun, 11 Aug 2013 11:58:48 -0400 schrieb Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org: Hello, Was reviewing older news items and was wondering about this one: # eselect news read 12 2012-09-09-make.conf-and-make.profile-move Titlemake.conf and make.profile move Author Jorge

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: make.conf/profile location change

2013-08-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 11/08/2013 17:58, Tanstaafl wrote: Hello, Was reviewing older news items and was wondering about this one: # eselect news read 12 2012-09-09-make.conf-and-make.profile-move Titlemake.conf and make.profile move Author Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto jmbsvice...@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: make.conf/profile location change

2013-08-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-11 12:03 PM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: When in doubt, read the man page (make.conf(5)): [...] DESCRIPTION This file contains various variables that are used by Portage. Portage will check the currently-defined environment variables first for any settings.

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: make.conf/profile location change

2013-08-11 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sun, 11 Aug 2013 12:48:44 -0400 schrieb Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org: On 2013-08-11 12:03 PM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: When in doubt, read the man page (make.conf(5)): [...] DESCRIPTION This file contains various variables that are used by Portage.

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: make.conf/profile location change

2013-08-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-11 1:06 PM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: Yes, I agree that that might perhaps have been nice to mention it in the news item (although IMHO that's the sort of information the man pages are there for), but it *is* crystal clear in the docs, or do you not count the man pages to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: make.conf/profile location change

2013-08-11 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sun, 11 Aug 2013 13:30:57 -0400 schrieb Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org: On 2013-08-11 1:06 PM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: Yes, I agree that that might perhaps have been nice to mention it in the news item (although IMHO that's the sort of information the man pages are there

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: make.conf/profile location change

2013-08-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 11/08/2013 18:48, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-08-11 12:03 PM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: When in doubt, read the man page (make.conf(5)): [...] DESCRIPTION This file contains various variables that are used by Portage. Portage will check the currently-defined