Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:22:09 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote:

> And then portage did two things.
> 
> 1. It masked emul-linux -- A move that I support, it's time to see that
> go.
> 
> 2. It sent out a profile that sets variable ABI_x86 with 32 bit enabled.
> ALARM: ABI_x86 should be set in exactly one place:
> /etc/portage/make.conf and nowhere else. But, nevertheless, ABI_x86 WAS
> set which broke the profile because my system cannot compile 32 bit
> executables.

That seems odd, I use several 64 bit profiles here and all of them have
ABI_X86="64"

> Right now my system is completely unusable and will need fresh stage3
> packages followed by an emerge emptytree to recover. But before I can do
> that, I need a sane profile

Can't you just set ABI_X86="64 -32" in make.conf?

> and to know that the person who pushed out
> the changes to portage, obviously without any testing whatsoever, that
> broke my system so comprehensively is tortured, executed, butchered, and
> then cremated.

That's quite lenient, you could have left the execution until
last :)


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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