Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles

[Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 3 May 2005 14:49:54 -0400
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 03 May 2005 12:10 pm, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > I think an easier solution would be a portage rescue set of
> > profiles.
> 
> afaik the only thing it'd need is a 'make.defaults' and a custom 
> 'packages' (where we'd force a newer version of portage of course)
> 
> i dont think we even need a set, we could just do it with one ...
> after all,  we can stick bash code into make.defaults and have it do
> something ugly like  run `uname` or parse make.defaults to figure out
> the correct ARCH 
> -mike

Please no bash code in make.defaults other than variable assignments,
portage doesn't source it but uses a simle python parser.
Oh, and profile.bashrc isn't available either in those old portage
versions.

Marius

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