From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Gwdl8-0006lZ-TM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:07:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBJC48Et005054; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:04:08 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBJC0aUa014394 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:00:37 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B4AF8343C for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:05:14 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id P2fb4RPdcYaM for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:05:06 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A94283440 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:04:55 +0200 (SAST) Received: from [192.168.2.130] ([192.168.2.130]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:02:15 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do you make a gentoo system confirm to a release? Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:01:16 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <4d4321660612190238g143099cbla78e71bb87c8cd33@mail.gmail.com> <200612191306.05197.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <200612191212.41264.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> In-Reply-To: <200612191212.41264.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612191401.16832.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Dec 2006 12:02:15.0252 (UTC) FILETIME=[8623F140:01C72365] X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id kBJC0aUa014394 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id kBJC48FO005054 X-Archives-Salt: 22cc538a-a9df-4d38-9188-3b43a8595321 X-Archives-Hash: 77faec61cfeabe4ed88c4bb155248419 On Tuesday 19 December 2006 13:12, Bo =D8rsted Andresen wrote: > On Tuesday 19 December 2006 12:06, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > But, if you insist, you can do this: > > > > 1. Change your CHOST in /etc/make.conf > > 2. Change the /etc/make.profile symplink to point to the profile of > > your choice in /usr/portage/profiles > > 3. emerge -e system ; emerge -e world > > Whoa! Your instructions for changing CHOST are incomplete! There's a > guide for that. Refer to it! Make sure to read the warnings in it. > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml You are quite correct.=20 In my defense it's something I only ever do once per machine and then=20 forget all about it, so it's easy to forget about the issues involved alan --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list