On 11/06/10 20:30, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 12:36:01 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote:
Performing Global Updates:
(Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
.='update pass' *='binary update' #='/var/db update' @='/var/db
move' s='/var/db SLOT move' %='binary move' S='binary SLOT move'
p='update /etc/portage/package.*'
/usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2005................
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/usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2010........
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* An update to portage is available. It is _highly_ recommended
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The question is: Should a profile from 2005 be
updated as well? I built this machine from scratch about 6 months ago
so there wasn't something like a "favourite config" I brought across
from another machine. Is this normal behaviour? Should I be worried?
Should I zealously try and track this down and kill it or should I let
bygones be bygones?
Why are you running a 2005 profile? I don't think that was even available
six months ago. emerge --info will tell you which profile you are
actually using, but if portage tells you to it needs updating, it is
usually right.
Neil,
Simple answer to your first question, I'm not - well I didn't do
anything to ask for a profile from 2005. As I said, this thing was built
form scratch, using an install disk downloaded about 6 months ago, I did
nothing such as bringing across old configs/profiles, this thing has
just showed up.
Is the first line of emerge --info,
Portage 2.1.9.24 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.4.5,
glibc-2.12.1-r1, 2.6.35-gentoo-r9 x86_64)
the line that will tell me which profile I'm running? As I said, I've,
not knowingly, done anything to make this profile appear, it's just
appeared. In the dir /usr/portage/profiles/updates, there are a whole
series of profile file. Do all of these need to exist? Should I get rid
of all of them, except for the current?
Andrew
