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 1N2Zqx-00029H-VL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:24:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3BB11E0A85; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:23:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f191.google.com (mail-yw0-f191.google.com [209.85.211.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F178E0A85 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:23:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh29 with SMTP id 29so10553920ywh.32 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:23:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+FQpHZeC/nQ7MEgXzZGjv9S/Rq9JZONz7TlMN83zrfA=; b=fJQi/ja0pslJtDKS8UObXUKHzw02Yz6zc551hz4vtWE3Sly41CEisdcURs5jI3A5qE h+XVnOCpsklFAnbA5QCaDQinqyfwTmRc2o4vF49vUMxlDpgLGRhD8MBAoC/5lCR+RhkX +8mkqvQhcBxr1z5wuSDWCKTxR83zj8ZmUPhM8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=O4cb3IU3z0D2MByEiHNMLYhmN23zQsLH4KzjExORbS+OPUvpd4q39DNvbsD45rZVr2 6ThxShmh5uf/yG7NxjcdNEOR0dFebgEX/u72z4dZjEzs3x7Knf1hBSbC0BgOpEYh8Qcn Uh0rM8Yqmnzc4UGCZI1pouWy0zdocaOP6u2LQ= Received: by 10.151.25.6 with SMTP id c6mr5875514ybj.243.1256603037853; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:23:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-95-111.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.95.111]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm1734042gxk.11.2009.10.26.17.23.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AE63D9A.5030108@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:23:54 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091007 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge advises upgrade profile References: <87my3dohps.fsf@newsguy.com> <200910270148.06419.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200910270148.06419.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0de6c3c3-0404-4c4c-8627-a87a603f6a42 X-Archives-Hash: e296b2ea05b17a90c913db60357d9992 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 27 October 2009 01:31:27 Harry Putnam wrote: > >> My profile has been >> ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 >> >> starting an update system today I'm told my profile is depricated and >> to update to default/linux/x86/10.0 >> >> I've forgotten about how this is done. Is it just a matter of >> >> ln -sf >> /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0 /etc/make.profile ? >> > > yes > > > >> Or does it involve something like a major regrind of every package? >> > > no > > > >> A quick google with site:gentoo.org "change profile" shows dozens of >> hits in forum messages, but I didn't notice a HOWTO or concise >> walk-thru. >> > > It's in the gentoo docs - remember that long thing you read when you installed > gentoo the first time, and probably haven't read again? yes, that one :-) > > All a profile does is specify some default standard packages for system, > default USE flags and some other various bits and pieces. Once you have set > your make.conf up the way you want, very little in the way of profile changes > affect you. > > If you find forum posts that go on about large re-emerges of world and other > nonsense, well you should understand that such comments represent the average > level of cluelessness of your average forum user and you should treat it as > such > > > > Yep, I synced the tree, did the profile change and I think I had like two upgrades. I'm pretty sure I would have had those even if I hadn't changed the profile. It is possible to have a lot of packages with changes but not to likely. I subscribe to -dev so I can see most of the screw-ups that are headed my way. Let's not get started on that hal and xorg-server thing again tho. That one surprised me for sure. Dale :-) :-)