From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0P21-0006kM-00 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:03:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59BBA1C075 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:03:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C42A5E045E for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 01:28:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.0.2] (c-76-126-166-236.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [76.126.166.236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: solar@gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5C3281B40AF for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 01:28:10 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] qmerge and friend From: solar To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4D81C5AD.7010507@wildgooses.com> References: <4D80E2DF.8050507@gmx.ch> <201103162156.33232.vapier@gentoo.org> <4D81C5AD.7010507@wildgooses.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:28:13 -0700 Message-Id: <1300411693.5453.1.camel@here> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c403848e473270a820427feaa479ea39 On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 08:26 +0000, Ed W wrote: > On 17/03/2011 01:56, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:18:39 Martin Gysel wrote: > >> I tied to use qmerge on my 'embedded' system (well for the moment it > >> runs from a usb stick...). I don't have the portage tree there nor any > >> profile. > > > > the profile is necessary to convey fundamental information such as ARCH and > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS. and to a lesser degree, the system packages and default USE > > flags. without a profile, you need to manually set all of those. > > > > i guess we could tweak the qmerge code to not walk the profile if people > > provide ARCH and such themselves ... > > -mike > > Is it sufficient to "fake" the profile by simply having a profile path? > Everything else defined in make.conf? qmerge only ever required a minimal /etc/make.conf ; What Mike points out is we can probably accept it from the env also. -- solar Gentoo Linux