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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Two portage questions
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 17:02:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110514170229.7a1ebcf5@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=O0F-bGSHbu0bdXc9UnNWzdVC=SA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, 14 May 2011 08:38:04 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> > /etc/make.profile is a symlink to something in $PORTDIR/profiles/ and
> > that 
> 
> Odd.  Not on my system, it's not.  It's a directory with two  entries:
>   eapi: a text file, length 2, with contents "2\n".
>   parent: a text file with two lines:
>      ..
>      ../../../../../../targets/desktop/kde
> The parent is obviously not relative to the /etc/make.profile directory.

No, it's relative to the real file.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle;
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-14 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-14 10:31 [gentoo-user] Two portage questions Alan Mackenzie
2011-05-14 10:51 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-14 14:12   ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-05-14 15:58     ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-14 15:38   ` Kevin O'Gorman
2011-05-14 16:01     ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-14 16:02     ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2011-05-14 22:39     ` Mike Edenfield

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