Re: [gentoo-dev] make.profile symlink now points nowhere (was default-x86-1.4)

["Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@charter.net>]

Question here - I made the link to the 2005.0 profile on (NOT 2005.0/2.4) 
a system that is 2.6.11 and has been on 2.6 for months.  Tonight emerge 
-uD system -p wants to "upgrade" me to a 2.4 kernel!!!  Well, portage this 
is a 2.6.x system - not 2.4 - duh!  From what I found in the mail list 
archives and forums noone has really given a solution.  Some say "what 
problem", others give reasons for it but the fact remains - why on a 2.6 
system that has happily been running 2.6 for months does this new profile 
want to give me a 2.4 kernel.  I did follow one suggest and symlink to 
default-linux/x86 directory but I'm afraid that will break something so I 
went back to 2004.0 for the symlink.  And I am at portage 2.0.51.19 so 
that's good.

In short - what do we have to do to upgrade to a current profile on 2.6 
machines and get 2.6 gentoo-source updates, not 2.4.

Thanks.


  On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, David Sparks wrote:

> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Friday 08 April 2005 07:57 pm, David Sparks wrote:
>>
>>> !!! ARCH is not set... Are you missing the /etc/make.profile symlink?
>>> !!! Is the symlink correct? Is your portage tree complete?
>>
>>
>> so use 'default-x86-2004.2', emerge portage, and then switch to the cascading
>> version
>
> Thanks for the suggestions, I've tried 2004.0 .1 .2 .3 with similar
> results as below.
>
> I also tried coping a binary package into /usr/portage/packages/... and
> emerging it with the -K option but that didn't go either.
>
>
> # rm make.profile
> # ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2004.2 make.profile
> # emerge portage
>
> !!! Your current profile is deprecated and not supported anymore.
> !!! Please upgrade to the following profile if possible:
>        default-linux/x86/2005.0
>
> To upgrade do the following steps:
> # emerge -n '>=sys-apps/portage-2.0.51'
> # cd /etc/
> # rm make.profile
> # ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0 make.profile
>
> # Gentoo has switched to 2.6 as the defaults for headers/kernels.  If
> you wish
> # to use 2.4 headers/kernels, then you should do the following to upgrade:
> # emerge -n '>=sys-apps/portage-2.0.51'
> # cd /etc/
> # rm make.profile
> # ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0/2.4 make.profile
>
> # More information can be found at the following URLs:
> # http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml
> # http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml
>
>
> !!! 'str' object has no attribute 'insert'
> !!! 'rm -Rf /usr/portage/profiles; emerge sync' may fix this. If it does
> !!! not then please report this to bugs.gentoo.org and, if possible, a dev
> !!! on #gentoo (irc.freenode.org)
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