[gentoo-dev] Custom profiles

[gentoo-dev] Custom profiles

[Cedric Veilleux]

Hi,

	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 need to create a new profile for running gentoo in a virtual server 
environment, i.e. inside a host system. See the vserver project.



thanks,

Cedric

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Custom profiles

[Chad Huneycutt]

Cedric Veilleux wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 	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?


Once you get past rsync blasting your updates to a profile (using one of 
the methods you suggested), there is a problem with customized updates. 
  The problem is that no notification is made when changes are made to 
the profiles.  For instance, recently, I started getting errors from 
portage that no unmasked gcc existed in portage.  It turns out that the 
version specified explicitly (*=...) in my packages file had been 
removed from portage.  A simple e-mail anytime profiles are touched 
would really be helpful.

>
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Custom profiles

[Jack Morgan]

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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						
Gentoo-Sparc Developer				http://www.gentoo.org/~jmorgan
Gentoo Reference Platfrom - Sparc               http://www.bonyari.com/packages/


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