On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Neil Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > I log in and want > > to figure out what's in front of me with respect to updates. I type > > emerge sync and portage deletes files. to me that's just wrong. > > > > > > What the heck are you talking about? "emerge --sync" doesn't delete ANY > files from your system. >
This whole thread, from my original subject line on, has been saying that emerge --sync removes profiles. Does it or not? On this specific machine following emerge --sync the link /etc/make.profile was pointing at nothing. I originally asked if it was removed by emerge --sync or whether it had just gotten messed up. Everyone seemed to reply that emerge --sync removes profiles which seems to be in conflict with your last comment. As for my earlier losing kernels and ATI drivers, that could have easily been something like I cleaned out distfiles since these machines don't have much disk space and then since they were removed from the servers I couldn't get it any more. If it happened that way then that's a problem on my end, not portage. - Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
