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 1QLHN8-0007Jh-14 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 May 2011 16:07:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86A561C0C4; Sat, 14 May 2011 16:02:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DFDE1C0C4 for ; Sat, 14 May 2011 16:02:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 27FA08040B for ; Sat, 14 May 2011 17:02:35 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 17:02:29 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Two portage questions Message-ID: <20110514170229.7a1ebcf5@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20110514103109.GA3053@acm.acm> <201105141251.14810.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9cvs22 (GTK+ 2.24.3; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/.U1Ktn=s8HrimrVg7KGrl9l"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 6a0eb0592ef5b2b46e500c4fea9573fe --Sig_/.U1Ktn=s8HrimrVg7KGrl9l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 >=20 > 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." (Albert Einstein) --Sig_/.U1Ktn=s8HrimrVg7KGrl9l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk3Op5oACgkQum4al0N1GQMOVgCfYL3R7EqIANJjp/No4k4B9Il5 2dwAnj0vxMnlQmyU56sHlngMJSqpyGZj =10Iy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/.U1Ktn=s8HrimrVg7KGrl9l--