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 1N2ZJN-0004li-Gs for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:49:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E5ABE0AC3; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:49:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f206.google.com (mail-ew0-f206.google.com [209.85.219.206]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22C2BE0AC3 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:49:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy2 with SMTP id 2so204169ewy.34 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:49:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=f14ejpVzfGYCgS234oZXNK0s54aCmtxcwpl7grFK14Y=; b=rPyMccAGua+187kgQI50BxhJFzHyY51YU4FaAP2jOkIciMxsvnCAMFLXdnaV0w2xKA ROJ/dHD7ganzgsSJBjwGwBcV35ISasrHjgjNTc7ei4PBsNHiSBKYs1bGxT73CpsmK9rG 0VxAkGKx1K0+gNZSJAA9sfi8ah/agsOU5lFno= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=AEFV9Jlu8DD7F/jaVKpzHaKlSmBwFnjhFLFQMNh3+RO7fvHnvZa41oKzLncSYvGc6M oV0Jh8xCXz311q10Xxa2w3giDD8BsLjhF5Xyd2KoJ0BBHvwy5vaDL8CPKVWMvU7Se+gx aDI6cA6AYT1nCzF+6MTMhebVmwoNziUBqvppE= Received: by 10.211.130.15 with SMTP id h15mr348358ebn.82.1256600951579; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-40-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm13621693eyz.11.2009.10.26.16.49.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:49:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge advises upgrade profile Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:48:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-zen4; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <87my3dohps.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87my3dohps.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910270148.06419.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 77fed4e0-1d9e-4644-beab-aff64466ff7c X-Archives-Hash: d188d56bc1af32707d83052be9903b3f On Tuesday 27 October 2009 01:31:27 Harry Putnam wrote: > My profile has been > ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 > > starting an update system today I'm told my profile is depricated and > to update to default/linux/x86/10.0 > > I've forgotten about how this is done. Is it just a matter of > > ln -sf > /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0 /etc/make.profile ? yes > Or does it involve something like a major regrind of every package? no > A quick google with site:gentoo.org "change profile" shows dozens of > hits in forum messages, but I didn't notice a HOWTO or concise > walk-thru. It's in the gentoo docs - remember that long thing you read when you installed gentoo the first time, and probably haven't read again? yes, that one :-) All a profile does is specify some default standard packages for system, default USE flags and some other various bits and pieces. Once you have set your make.conf up the way you want, very little in the way of profile changes affect you. If you find forum posts that go on about large re-emerges of world and other nonsense, well you should understand that such comments represent the average level of cluelessness of your average forum user and you should treat it as such -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com