On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 12:21:39AM -0500, Cedric Veilleux wrote:
> 	What is the most elegant way to use a custom profile in portage? 
> 
> 	Emerge rsync will delete it if I place it under /usr/portage right? If I 
> change the symbolic link in /etc/make.profile to point to another directory, 
> would it cause eventual problems? Would updates to baselayout and such 
> replace /etc/make.profile back to /usr/portage/profiles?
 
i would make /usr/local/profiles and place them there. You will need to maintain
your profiles, eg make sure they are up-to-date. Then use PORTAGE_OVERLAY=" \
/usr/portage/profiles" Updates to baselayout will not hose your /etc/make.profile
as the baselayout ebuild doesn't know which arch/release you want to use. 

HTH

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Jack Morgan						
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