On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 07:24, Mike Williams wrote:
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> On Tuesday 04 November 2003 12:10, Trey Sizemore wrote:
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> > Here is the output:
> > 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] trey $ ls -lh /etc/make.profile/
> > total 21K
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           38 Nov  3 09:49 default-x86-1.4
> > -> /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/
> 
> > It  looks as though the directory is symlinked correctly, but I still get
> > the message.  Should I still delete the directory and all files in it,
> > then recreate a directory called /etc/make.profile symlinked to
> > /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/?
> 
> Nope, it's not. /etc/make.profile/default-x86-1.4 is a symlink.
> Drop the trailling / (ls -lh /etc/make.profile -- no final slash), if you 
> still get a listing of files it's is a directory.
> I can't remember, but doubt, if you were to rm -rf /etc/make.profile it would 
> follow the symlink down and delete a small part of /usr/portage/profiles/, so 
> I'd still
> rm /etc/make.profile/default-x86-1.4
> rm -rf /etc/make.profile
> ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4 /etc/make.profile
> 
> - -- 
> Mike Williams
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That did it...thanks Mike!

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Cheers,
Trey
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