On Friday 09 March 2007 13:38:54 Mark Haney wrote:
> I come in this morning and do an emerge --sync and an emerge -upD world
> to see if there are any new packages hanging out there (I'm actually
> just testing out ViewPortageX in KDE, but that's a whole other story)
> and I get this message:
>
> !!! ARCH is not set... Are you missing the '/etc/make.profile' symlink?
> !!! Is the symlink correct? Is your portage tree complete?
>
> I did an update to kdelibs yesterday, but haven't done anything with
> portage since.  According to the emerge --pretend there is an update to
> portage, but I can't get to it because of this message.
>
> I did double check to see if the make.profile symlink was gone, but it's
> there.
>
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root        49 Feb 21 13:29 make.profile ->
> /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2007.0/
>
> So, what the bloody heck did I do?
>
Remove the symlink and make one to a supported profile. 2007.0 is not out yet, 
you should be using 2006.1.

rm /etc/make.profile
ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.1 /etc/make.profile

Then all will be well again.