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Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:21:36 -0700
From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1
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On 8/17/05, Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl> wrote:
> Mark Knecht schreef:
> > On 8/17/05, Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl> wrote:
> >
> >>Mark Knecht schreef:
> >>
> >>>Yes, it does, but it still didn't tell me what profile I'm running:
> >>>
> >>>mark@flash ~ $ ls /etc/make.profile/
> >>>2.4 packages parent
> >>>mark@flash ~ $
> >>>
> >>>where as
> >>>
> >>>mark@flash ~ $ cat /etc/make.profile/packages | grep profile
> >>># $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0/packages,v
> >>>1.3 2005/03/28 22:09:18 wolf31o2 Exp $
> >>># please refer to ${PORTDIR}/profiles/base/packages
> >>>mark@flash ~ $
> >>>
> >>>seems to say 2005.0 which is consistent with the most recent CD I've burned.
> >>>
> >>
> >>You know, that's very weird, Mark-- on my system
> >
> >
> > Hi Holly,
> > Ugh...what time is it there? 4 or 5AM?
>
> Yeah (6 am, now). I couldn't sleep.
>
> >
> > Try both versions
> >
> > ls -l /etc/make.profile
> > ls -l /etc/make.profile/
> >
> >
> >>
> >> ls -l /etc/make.profile
> >>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 jun 17 03:33 /etc/make.profile ->
> >>/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0
> >>
>
> and yes, with the trailing slash, I get the same results as you
>
> ls -l /etc/make.profile/
> totaal 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 120 jan 21 2005 2.4
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 679 mrt 29 00:35 packages
> -rw-r--r-- 1 portage portage 343 dec 3 2004 parent
>
> ... but that makes sense to me, because the first command is ls-ing the
> symlink only (thus gives the properties of the symlink, as ls always
> does if you specify a single file), and the second command (with the
> slash) is ls-ing the contents of the symlink, which in this case happens
> to be a folder.
I didn't realize that until this thread. Still it's not natural to me,
but clearly it seems to work which is cool.
>
> I think I thought that you were getting the contents when you weren't
> ls-ing the folder, but only the symlink.
>
> I should probably get some sleep, then, huh?
Yeah, sounds that way. Heck, even I'll be doing the same in an hour or
two, but that will jsut be 11PM. Boring guy here tonight.
Sleep tight,
Mark
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