Am Sun, 11 Aug 2013 12:48:44 -0400 schrieb Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org>:
> On 2013-08-11 12:03 PM, Marc Joliet <mar...@gmx.de> wrote: > > When in doubt, read the man page (make.conf(5)): > > > > "[...] > > DESCRIPTION > > This file contains various variables that are used by Portage. > > Portage will check > > the currently-defined environment variables first for any settings. > > If no environ‐ > > ment settings are found, Portage then checks the > > make.conf files. Both > > /etc/make.conf and /etc/portage/make.conf are checked (if > > present), and settings > > from /etc/portage/make.conf will override settings from > > /etc/make.conf. [...]" > > Thanks... my point was more that the news item didn't explain this - > also, this answers as to make.conf, but what about make.profile? portage(5) says: "If both /etc/portage/make.profile/ and /etc/make.profile/ exist, then /etc/portage/make.profile/ will be preferred." > I just don't like being forced to assume, or 'test for myself', when it > could be made crystal clear in the news item/docs. Yes, I agree that that might perhaps have been nice to mention it in the news item (although IMHO that's the sort of information the man pages are there for), but it *is* crystal clear in the docs, or do you not count the man pages to the docs? > Also, would > > ~ cd /etc/portage > ~ ln -s make.profile ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/13.0 > > Be the right way to create the make.profile symlink in the new location? AFAIK eselect profile uses the new location, but I don't remember how precisely I moved it (not that it matters). > Not sure why the two preceeding dots are there in the current one in > /etc, but they are... The current location is /etc/make.conf, right? Then ../usr/[...] will resolve to /usr/[...], whereas your ln command above will resolve to /etc/usr/[...], which is, erm, wrong :) . [...] HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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