On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 13:12:42 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > 2-clone the existing partition to a larger one to be the upgrade target > 3-boot the target > 4-note that there exists no /etc/portage/
How did you clone it? It appears parts are missing. > 5-# emerge --sync > which warned I need to emerge portage before doing anything else > 6-# emerge portage > This produced a longish warning: > !!! /etc/make.profile is not a symlink and will probably prevent most > merges. !!! It should point into a profile within /usr/portage/profiles/ > !!! (You can safely ignore this message when syncing. It's harmless.) > !!! If you have just changed your profile configuration, you should > revert !!! backto the previous configuration. Due to your current > profile being !!! invalid, allowed actions are limited to --help, > --info, --sync, and !!! --version. > > So, /etc/make.profile exists, but it's a symlink to a non-existant > ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop. Is all I need > to do to be able to proceed to change the symlink to point > to ...x86/13.0/des...? Any suggestions or words of wisdom? The message says it's not a symlink, not that it points nowhere. It may be that your cloning method dereferenced it when copying. Just reset it with "eselect profile list" followed by "eselect profile set". Beware that you are likely to have many blockers, circular dependencies and USE flag changes to deal with. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 45: Resident alien
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