Thanks everyone for the info! Michael Turcotte Information Systems City of North Bay 200 McIntyre St. E PO Box 360 North Bay, Ontario P1B 8H8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cityofnorthbay.ca
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Stubbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 9:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Won't emerge -uDvp world > > On Friday 01 April 2005 23:02, Mike Turcotte wrote: > > Hello I am trying to upgrade my file server that was built a half to > three > > quarters of a year ago using Gentoo 2004.2 GRP. I know this is really > old > > and probably insecure, but it is used mainly for file sharing internally > on > > my network. Anyways, I emerge synced, which went fine, but when I try to > > pretend to emerge -uDvp world to see what it's going to install, I get > the > > error about missing /etc/make.profile and check symlink. What does this > > mean and what can I do about it? Are those the emerge options I should > be > > using for this? > > Okay. You've hit a bug in portage, which you'll side-step, and then have > to > side-step another bug in order to get you back to a supported profile. > Assuming that you do in fact have an /etc/make.profile symlink, first > create > an empty make.defaults under it: > > # touch /etc/make.profile/make.defaults > > Then upgrade portage to the latest, which should be 2.0.51.19. You'll get > a > depracation notice telling you to upgrade your profile. Ignore it. So, > that's > just: > > # emerge portage > > Once that's done, then you can follow whatever the steps shown were to > upgrade > your profile. After that's done, you should be back in business again. > > Regards, > Jason Stubbs > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
