On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 4:44 AM, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

Martin Vaeth <martin <at> mvath.de> writes:

> >> > # PORTAGE_PROFILE=/usr/portage/profiles/arch/arm/armv7a/eapi

> >> This is not a directory. [...]

> > How do I determine [...]

> Choose the directory to which you would put the symlink
> (I suppose ..../armv7a in this example).

# PORTAGE_PROFILE=/usr/portage/profiles/arch/arm/armv7a eix -c --system
No matches found.

Surely I'm not the first person curious about the default or other
profile listing of packages for @system on different architectures?

I've tried all sort of command syntax and manually parsed up and down
these directories.

Pick any embedded arm profile and *please* show me the syntax to
determine the @system packages to be installed associate with any
embedded arm profile?

please?

James

$ eix -c --system
[I] app-arch/bzip2 (1.0.6-r6{tbz2}@06/28/14): A high-quality data compressor used extensively by Gentoo Linux

[... lots more lines like this ...]
[I] virtual/shadow (0{tbz2}@06/28/14): Virtual for user account management utilities
[I] virtual/ssh (0{tbz2}@06/28/14): Virtual for SSH client and server
Found 44 matches.

$ PORTAGE_PROFILE=/usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/arm/13.0/armv7a eix -c --system
[I] app-arch/bzip2 (1.0.6-r6{tbz2}@06/28/14): A high-quality data compressor used extensively by Gentoo Linux
[.......]
[I] virtual/shadow (0{tbz2}@06/28/14): Virtual for user account management utilities
[I] virtual/ssh (0{tbz2}@06/28/14): Virtual for SSH client and server
Found 42 matches.

(this is an almost identical list, but not the 44 vs 42 matches found in each case)

Note that default/linux/arm/13.0/armv7a profile is building on the arch/arm/armv7a (what you searched against).

As I understand it, the profiles in arch/arm don't contain any packages files, so there's no @system packages to list (as you found). I presume that the arch/arm/... profiles are intended to define compiler flags etc for cpu variants, and are used as a basis of a more complete profile (such as default/linux/arm/13.0/armv7a). If you look through /usr/portage/profiles/profiles.desc, you see the list of all profiles which would be selectable through 'eselect profile', and I don't find and arch/... profiles listed in there.

Hope that helps...

Bruce