Re: [gentoo-user] Odd portage / eix behavior [SOLVED]

[Eric Martin <freak4uxxx@gmail.com>]

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Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Friday 08 August 2008 19:58:46 Eric Martin wrote:
>> On one of my boxes, eix shows every package as (*) which is testing for
>> my current arch but stable on some other.  emerge --info reports x86 as
>> my arch, so I don't know what the problem is.  I don't think it's a huge
>> problem as it's just an annoyance but I might be missing something.  I
>> don't know where to start on google / forums so I figured I'd start here.
> 
> I recall something similar happening to me a while ago, on a disconnected box 
> that hadn't been updated for 6 months. I was getting weird status symbols just 
> like you after a sync. In my case, an upgrade to the latest ~arch portage 
> fixed it.
> 
> You seem to be running purely x86 right? I assume as a first step you have 
> done all the sensible things - remerge latest stable portage, emerge --sync, 
> checked /etc/portage/* for silly masks that you forgot about?
> 
> 
I figured it out!  /etc/make.profile was linked to 
/usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/2008.0 rather than

/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/2007.0

(as all of my other machines are).  Changing that solved it.  What I 
don't get is why that would break things...

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Eric Martin
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