Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles

2007-03-25 Thread Dale
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > emerge --metadata is completely unrelated. You are probably speaking of one > of > the issues at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/common-problems.xml > > See `man emerge` to see what --metadata does... > > I just know it fixed it. I was told on the foru

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles

2007-03-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 24 March 2007 06:30:58 Dale wrote: > > You may want to either sync again or run emerge --metadata one. I seem > > to recall running into this and it can't update the database without > > that link being correct. The metadata part should fix it. > > > > Not necessary. I just rec

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles

2007-03-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:16:47 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: > > There's no point, because they'll only be copied back the next time > > you sync. > Thanks for the response. I guess I was just looking to keep my hard > drive and free of superfluous files as possible. This tip will keep the whole p

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles

2007-03-23 Thread Dale
Colleen Beamer wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Colleen Beamer wrote: > >> > >> Is it safe to remove older profiles? > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Colleen > >> > > I think the profiles are updated when you sync, which is why you got > > that error message. > > This is true. > > You may want to either sync

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles

2007-03-23 Thread Colleen Beamer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: > Colleen Beamer wrote: >> >> >> Is it safe to remove older profiles? >> >> Regards, >> >> Colleen >> > > I think the profiles are updated when you sync, which is why you got > that error message. This is true. You may want to either

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles

2007-03-23 Thread Colleen Beamer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:05:25 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: > >> /etc/make.profile is a symlink to >> /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1 (or whatever) >> >> Is it safe to remove older profiles? > > There's no point, b

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles

2007-03-23 Thread Dale
Colleen Beamer wrote: > Hi all, > > This may be a stupid question, but hey, better safe than sorry. > > I'm updating my laptop, which I haven't used in a while. After syncing, > I went to update and got a message saying that my arch was not set > asking whether my profile was linked correctly. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles

2007-03-23 Thread Mick
On Friday 23 March 2007 20:05, Colleen Beamer wrote: > gpgkeys: key 04428ACF77E97BA2 not found on keyserver > Hi all, > > This may be a stupid question, but hey, better safe than sorry. > > I'm updating my laptop, which I haven't used in a while. After syncing, > I went to update and got a message

Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles

2007-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:05:25 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: > /etc/make.profile is a symlink to > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1 (or whatever) > > Is it safe to remove older profiles? There's no point, because they'll only be copied back the next time you sync. -- Neil Bothwick

[gentoo-user] Question re: profiles

2007-03-23 Thread Colleen Beamer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, This may be a stupid question, but hey, better safe than sorry. I'm updating my laptop, which I haven't used in a while. After syncing, I went to update and got a message saying that my arch was not set asking whether my profile was linked c