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 1QLHMi-0007JG-Cb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 May 2011 16:06:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D7271C0C3; Sat, 14 May 2011 16:01:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A56C1C0C3 for ; Sat, 14 May 2011 16:01:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so3385976wyi.40 for ; Sat, 14 May 2011 09:01:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=uL0RCn6xPnc+x69Lwft1uRiS+xta+isgpOrDIFkDygQ=; b=eE7IoYHH92HGgSU/toTPXMXvp31obp3nllM0Apm43+ag81yFsO/SXx97F8DX1oeAxv R+3eQfXjLKaEJF1WAqHxNAP12GxlRG99jULqZTKMmQsTcJ9IGYQewDHQVGdl6bNF9++w G+JRBHMpJMBtf63LSkCfWOZUf4z9gWvKktXLw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=u1ela6zqGwFqMp7VOTOCTKqfMt14MhHsEoueyrHHGo96PFGafiG/npPPgE2dUEZOs6 jYS5cTDoJMw3MULICCQAwehcF+sf1oJUTdHKouUwu4g/X0cP+o9aA+Posz3uv6d5g9bd RiFty7niILePLFxGGQqsjMvMsmUIuDj1cTn0Q= Received: by 10.227.199.207 with SMTP id et15mr2618961wbb.56.1305388913310; Sat, 14 May 2011 09:01:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-114-244.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.114.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l24sm2047088wbc.30.2011.05.14.09.01.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 14 May 2011 09:01:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Two portage questions Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 18:01:04 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-ck-r1; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: "Kevin O'Gorman" References: <20110514103109.GA3053@acm.acm> <201105141251.14810.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105141801.04997.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 490d97ef00e33e5ddcd810320c171c1b 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