Portage Problems with Gentoo

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pheadxdll
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Portage Problems with Gentoo

Post by pheadxdll »

When I start emerge, It gives me this message:

ARCH is not set... Are you missing the /etc/make.profile symlink?
Is the symlink correct? Is your portage tree complete.

I'm very new to gentoo. Please help. :D
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Post by zlasher »

I've suggested this - but no-one has confirmed it..

You might try it and give us some feedback..

(it worked when I it..)

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xbox etc # ln -sf /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4 /etc/make.profile 
xbox etc #
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Post by RensoreK »

When I was having difficulties emerging squid I tried this command and it worked wonders. Thanks :D
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Post by zlasher »

RensoreK wrote:When I was having difficulties emerging squid I tried this command and it worked wonders. Thanks :D
Thanks for the feedback - RensoreK :)

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Post by orochi »

Quick and dirty setup howto (does that make sense? lol)

Installed e: way tho i hd to use rescutoox to ftp over to /mnt/e/rootfs



emerge --sync

cd /etc/
rm make.profile
ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0 make.profile

emerge portage
etc-update

magic


login as root and change password
change password for gentoox

emerge --sync for kicks, and emerge system (or emerge world)


may have to magic fix alsa && magic, emerge system will update alsa to 1.0.11 or something


etc-update
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Post by ShALLaX »

Running "magic" would fix all these problems for you. It fixes the profile AND syncs for you!
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Post by orochi »

you must have updated magic then, thats what I used to have to do with Pro2.0a O.o
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Post by ShALLaX »

Magic has done that for over a year ;)


FYI: ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0 make.profile

^^ that is TOTALLY the wrong profile to use! You should be using the no-nptl profile... otherwise it still start pulling in crazy stuff like linux-2.6... bleh!
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