Bug 195338 – man emerge: /etc/make.profile/virtuals

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Evert 2007-10-10 09:14:56 UTC]

The man page of emerge says:
       /etc/make.profile/virtuals
              Contains a list of default  packages  used  to  resolve  virtual
              dependencies.  Do not edit this file.

However, on my system, /etc/make.profile/virtuals does not exist!
$ ls -l /etc/make.profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 okt 10 10:22 /etc/make.profile -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2007.0/

However, I do have the file /etc/make.profile/desktop/virtuals!
What's going on? And where can I find more information about virtuals?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man emerge
2. /virtual
3. ls -l /etc/make.profile/virtuals
Actual Results:  
$ ls -l /etc/make.profile/virtuals
ls: cannot access /etc/make.profile/virtuals: No such file or directory

Expected Results:  
$ ls -l /etc/make.profile/virtuals
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 308 apr 14 00:02 /etc/make.profile/virtuals

# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.3.9 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.22.9 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.22.9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:30:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r5
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.22-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/data/linux/gentoo/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="C"
LINGUAS="en en_US en_GB nl de"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/data/linux/gentoo/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/compile"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl alsa apache2 apm berkdb bitmap-fonts cli cracklib crypt cups dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk iconv imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg ldap mad midi mikmod mmx mng mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis wmf x86 xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse wacom" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US en_GB nl de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa fbdev i810"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-10-10 09:19:45 UTC]

Bugzilla is for bugs, not for questions.  If you have questions, we have mailing lists, forums.gentoo.org or #gentoo IRC channel on Freenode.

/etc/make.profile/virtuals means virtuals for your profile, which includes any parent profile of that subprofile.

[Comment 2 Evert 2007-10-11 07:34:26 UTC]

Well, not having /etc/make.profile/virtuals IS a bug when the man page talks about the file!
Thanx!

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-10-11 07:39:03 UTC]

Which part of the 'including any parent profiles' is so hard to understand?

[Comment 4 Evert 2007-10-17 07:20:48 UTC]

> Which part of the 'including any parent profiles' is so hard to understand?

I guess that doesn' t even matter since the man page doesn't even contain the word parent! So you might explain it right, the man page still doesn't...