Allan Spagnol Comar schreef: > it is necessary to make any changes to get the packages from version > 2005.1 while using 2005.0. > > I read somewhere that we should change the symlink /etc/make.profile > to the new 2005.1 profile and resync, I dided and after sync there > where no updates for my system. Is this right ? > Probably, assuming that you normally keep your packages up to date.
Profiles mean "nothing"-- insofar as portage doesn't "divide" packages based on profile. In other words, it's not as if baselayout 1.11.13 is only available to the 2005.1 profile, while the 2005.0 profile can only have 1.9.4-r6 or something. Portage does sometimes disable or enable certain USE flags based on profile, but this is unlikely to be a big issue unless you're changing to a completely different profile (i.e., from default x86 to selinux or something). And in any case, the profile is regularly incrementally updated, most likely to reflect critical updates (ever notice that "Performing Global Updates" that Portage sometimes delays your emerge with?). The profile is really only an issue on initial install. After that, it's fairly irrelevant to daily life (until Portage flatly says to upgrade it as the old profiles are unsupported-- most likely meaning that they will not be updated to reflect "things we know now that we didn't know when we designed the old profile"). But otherwise, I'm sure there's still a couple of people around here with the 1.4 profile, and definitely some with a 2004 profile-- because the profile "name" is not particularly important once Gentoo is actually up and running. So it's not that you got "bad" advice, but I would say that "we *should* change the profile symlink" is probably too strong a term, as far as advice goes. If you really, really have to change the profile, Portage will tell you to do so; otherwise it's just cosmetic. As far as I know :-) . Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
