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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 12:42 pm    Post subject: Crossdev: make.profile is not a symlink ??? Reply with quote

Hi all.

I spotted the embedded profile in portage recently and decided to give it a try with crossdev. So I ran crossdev -t x86_64-gentoo-linux-uclibc -S and made /usr/x86_64-gentoo-linux-uclibc/etc/make.profile a symlink to /portage/portage.d/profiles/embedded .

In the meantime, I've relocated most of portage tree and components to /portage, just as follows:
ls -l /portage:
drwxrwsr-x   4 root    portage 139264 Dec 31 14:10 distfiles
drwxrws---   3 portage portage 720896 Dec 31 17:09 log
drwx------   2 root    root     16384 Mar 31  2012 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x   4 root    root      4096 Nov 13 21:14 overlay.d
drwxr-xr-x  13 root    root      4096 Dec 15 13:41 packages
drwxr-xr-x 164 root    root      4096 Dec 15 12:31 portage.d
drwxr-xr-x   7 root    root      4096 Mar 31  2012 tmp

so that portage has [almost] all its stuff stored in one directory: overlay trees, package binaries, portage tree and temp directory.
emerge --info | grep /portage:
DISTDIR="/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/portage/tmp"
PORTDIR="/portage/portage.d"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/portage/overlay.d/crossdev /portage/overlay.d/local"

The thing is I get this warning message everytime I compile a package for crossdev:
x86_64-gentoo-linux-uclibc-emerge dropbear:
!!! /usr/x86_64-gentoo-linux-uclibc/etc/make.profile is not a symlink and will probably prevent most merges.
!!! It should point into a profile within /portage/portage.d/profiles/
!!! (You can safely ignore this message when syncing. It's harmless.)

ls -l /usr/x86_64-gentoo-linux-uclibc/etc/make.profile:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Nov 13 21:18 /usr/x86_64-gentoo-linux-uclibc/etc/make.profile -> /portage/portage.d/profiles/embedded

WTF?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 7:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The error message doesn't actually reflect the condition that is checked:
Code:
profile_broken = not self.profile_path or \
                        not os.path.exists(os.path.join(self.profile_path, "parent")) and \
                        os.path.exists(os.path.join(self["PORTDIR"], "profiles"))

In this case the second condition is the problem: the embedded profile contains no "parent" entry, I assume it wasn't inteded to be used directly. Also checking the commit history I wouldn't expect that this profile is maintained anymore, the last real updates were about three years ago.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 9:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aaaaah, Ok, now it sounds clear. Thanks Genone. Does that mean I can do whatever I want with that profile? Can I even create myself a profile for my embedded purposes?
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can certainly create your own profile, but I'm too much out of the loop with Gentoo to give any useful information about specifics how to best achieve that nowadays.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 1:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks anyway Genone. Will try to figure it out on my own as much as I can.
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