From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Two portage questions
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 18:01:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201105141801.04997.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=O0F-bGSHbu0bdXc9UnNWzdVC=SA@mail.gmail.com>
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:38 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Kevin O'Gorman
did opine thusly:
> > /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.
> Portage works,
> pretty much, although I have an unbuildable essential package at the moment
> with a bug just filed. Eix says my portage is 2.1.9.42.
You ls'ed the target of the symlink, not the symlink itself. Omit the trailing
slash in the argument to ls and you'll see it.
Either that, or your system is busted.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-14 16:06 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 [this message]
2011-05-14 16:02 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-05-14 22:39 ` Mike Edenfield
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