From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Migrate from rsync to git for emerge --sync?
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 01:22:59 -0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sk5cdi$e8c$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAGfcS_kYOzYZFmSymY+Qp4PQYDCLJO24Z4Ewd3g2ORSkFNtMRA@mail.gmail.com
On 2021-10-13, Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 9:01 PM Matt Connell <matthewdconnell@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 2021-10-12 at 21:14 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> > no profile selected
>>
>> I'm surprised you had gotten this far without a profile selected.
>> Maybe you had previously selected one that was deprecated at some point
>> and removed from the list?
>>
>
> Profile selection is implemented as a symlink from
> /etc/portage/make.profile. If you move your repository, then you need
> to re-select the profile since the symlink will be broken.
Indeed. And the failure that produces is not at all graceful.
I spent a little time trying to figure out where in the Wiki or docs
that the rsync -> git migration steps should be documented, but I
didn't find anyplace that looked like the right home for that info.
> Probably doesn't need to be a symlink, or in the repo, which is I'm
> guessing how funtoo does mix-ins though I haven't actually checked
> (just create a custom profile with the appropriate parent entries).
> The Gentoo standard though is a symlink.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-13 1:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-12 20:02 [gentoo-user] Migrate from rsync to git for emerge --sync? Grant Edwards
2021-10-12 20:09 ` Rich Freeman
2021-10-12 21:14 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2021-10-13 1:01 ` Matt Connell
2021-10-13 1:18 ` Rich Freeman
2021-10-13 1:22 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2021-10-13 1:35 ` Rich Freeman
2021-10-13 13:30 ` Grant Edwards
2021-10-13 1:25 ` Matt Connell
2021-10-13 1:19 ` Grant Edwards
2021-10-13 18:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2021-10-13 18:26 ` Grant Edwards
2021-10-13 18:36 ` Neil Bothwick
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