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 1N2ZNu-0005Bu-89 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:53:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 820E3E0AD4; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:53:31 +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 488BEE0AD4 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:53:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy2 with SMTP id 2so206564ewy.34 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:53:30 -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=4PqaxzngjPxp4BqDuwii7G11FX3HIk7yhFtRnZE86aE=; b=OP3ze/N3nZK0SxgXrJJTfOZ8XKmEGK80Bjn+FnGj4GAdELUivF+keFEjImObQD3SMv QobKcT765eaGTWZKLbjb07iw3EKM2QRwAxe/NpeDD5Z7V0IGiFQ9ZuuHUtnE+FleBruV frJBTf0QQqXPBDWiDLAplrrpwGQOvFt6/WMI8= 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=Uh2vi58fWzhMyz17aP+0WezH3r8CD+PrVHXguqF+bSJWtWkTXHU36Gd08tHJM5Vq98 /6mvZw79ikXnOLoUtmA1g528PoOBiRX57hK7tBa9rJLC6/qUDXt7JObcny6zGekRstwk M966oydyspb7aY2zLK2rNUU07a+ce8QXFR3ng= Received: by 10.216.90.203 with SMTP id e53mr25011wef.86.1256601210641; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:53:30 -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 5sm1015433eyf.1.2009.10.26.16.53.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:53:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge advises upgrade profile Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:52:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-zen4; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <87my3dohps.fsf@newsguy.com> <1256600902.19685.207.camel@rattus> In-Reply-To: <1256600902.19685.207.camel@rattus> 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-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910270152.27090.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: ab64833a-6e4f-43d7-98fe-2b5ef6571d4d X-Archives-Hash: ea959646858ab081e7046e2b20bed3ea On Tuesday 27 October 2009 01:48:22 William Kenworthy wrote: > rattus ~ # eselect profile list > Available profile symlink targets: > [1] default/linux/x86/10.0 * > [2] default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop > [3] default/linux/x86/10.0/developer > [4] default/linux/x86/10.0/server > [5] hardened/linux/x86/10.0 > [6] selinux/2007.0/x86 > [7] selinux/2007.0/x86/hardened > [8] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86 > [9] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/desktop > [10] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/developer > [11] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/hardened > [12] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/server > rattus ~ # In almost all cases [2] or [4] is a better choice than [1] > > On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 18:31 -0500, 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 ? > > > > Or does it involve something like a major regrind of every package? > > > > 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. > -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com