65171 – Incorrect Instructions for Upgrading to Profile 2004.2

Bug 65171 - Incorrect Instructions for Upgrading to Profile 2004.2

Summary: Incorrect Instructions for Upgrading to Profile 2004.2

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs-user
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Other (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High major (vote)
Assignee:	Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2004-09-24 01:06 UTC by Ollie Wild
Modified:	2004-09-25 05:51 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Ollie Wild 2004-09-24 01:06:03 UTC

In the Gentoo Upgrading Guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml#doc_chap3), the instructions say to link /etc/make.profile to ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/<arch>/2004.2 /etc/make.profile.  However, this does not work properly with portage-2.0.50 (cf. bug 64887).  The link should actually be to ../usr/portage/profiles/default-<arch>-2004.2.  In particular, as detailed in bug 64887, this incorrect configuration causes modutils to install while running a 2.6 kernel with module-init-tools, resulting in a broken system.

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Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-25 05:51:46 UTC

I've added instructions that the "new" location (cascading one) is for Portage 2.0.51 and later.