eselect profile can't set a named profile, if the name of the profile is a prefix of another profile. For example, the profile default/linux/x86/2008.0 can't be set, since there are (several) other profiles whose name begins with that string: # /usr/bin/eselect profile set default/linux/x86/2008.0 !!! Error: default/linux/x86/2008.0 is not a valid profile for x86 Killed This happens in at least versions 1.0.10 and 1.0.11-r1, of app-admin/eselect. The bug is in the function set_symlink() (in profile.eselect), which does: parch=$(sed -n -e "s|^\([[:alnum:]]\+\)[[:space:]].*${target}.*$|\1|p" \ ${ROOT}/${portdir}/profiles/profiles.desc) In the current profiles.desc, this will also match the desktop, developer, and server sub-profiles. $parch will thus be set to the value x86 x86 x86 x86 (four "x86" separated with newlines), which does not match $arch, which is set to just "x86". The solution is to "anchor" the end of the match better, like this: parch=$(sed -n -e "s|^\([[:alnum:]]\+\)[[:space:]].*${target}[[:space:]].*$|\1|p" \ ${ROOT}/${portdir}/profiles/profiles.desc)
Created attachment 173078 [details, diff] Patch anchoring the searches better The above mentioned fix as a patch (unified context diff), against app-admin/eselect-1.0.11-r1.
(In reply to comment #1) > Created an attachment (id=173078) [edit] > Patch anchoring the searches better > > The above mentioned fix as a patch (unified context diff), against > app-admin/eselect-1.0.11-r1. > Thanks! committed in -r2 http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/eselect/trunk/modules/profile.eselect?r1=307&r2=397
