Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: /lib32/* missing after system upgrade

["Ryan Sims" <rwsims@gmail.com>]

On 1/9/07, Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@home.nl> wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 January 2007 17:20, Ryan Sims wrote:
> > On 1/9/07, Piotr Jaroszyński <peper@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 16:27, Einar S. Idsø wrote:
> > > > Some further info: I just remembered that I also changed the symlink
> > > > for /etc/make.profile. For some reason I changed it to point to
> > > > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0, which doesn't seem
> > > > right... I suppose I should rather have used
> > > > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.1/(desktop|server)?
> > > >
> > > > Did I just stupidly break my system?
> > >
> > > You have switched to non-multilib profile... Switch it back asap and
> > > reemerge whatever you emerged on invalid profile.
> >
> > Is that possible?
> >
> > from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-amd64-faq.xml#multilib :
> > "Currently you cannot switch from a no-multilib to a multilib-enabled
> > profile, so think over your decision twice before you use the
> > no-multilib profile."
>
> The reason it's not possible is because it breaks the system.
> portage does not prevent you from changing to an incompatible profile.

Understood, I was thinking of "Switch it back asap and reemerge" as
impossible.  I have a deep respect for portage, but I absolutely do
not expect it to protect me from myself ;)

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Ryan W Sims

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