Bug 233471

Summary:	app-portage/ufed-0.40-r6 doesn't show "multilib" and removes it from /etc/make.conf USE.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Gerard van Vuuren <genlinux>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Gerard van Vuuren 2008-07-31 10:57:46 UTC

In /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc you'll find "multilib".
I am doing an x86_64 install,had this flag set by hand.
I fired up ufed set some flags and corrected/removed those which were wrong.
I then did emerge -e system and emerge -e world.
Revdep-rebuild now wants to emerge a 32 bit kde lib and when it has done this and I run revdep-rebuild again it wants to emerge it again.
I then checked my /etc/make.conf and "multilib" was gone!
I fired up ufed again and sure enough:no multilib!
It is in /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc however.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.run ufed.
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Expected Results:  
ufed should have shown "multilib".

Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-07-31 13:51:07 UTC

The multilib use flag is masked in the base profile and purposefully forced only for specific profiles. You cannot toggle it, since you're not supposed to. When you want to set it in a custom system, you have to create a custom profile. That ufed doesn't show it is correct.

The 2008 multilib profile is /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/2008.0/

Comment 2 Gerard van Vuuren 2008-07-31 14:51:10 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> The multilib use flag is masked in the base profile and purposefully forced
> only for specific profiles. You cannot toggle it, since you're not supposed to.
> When you want to set it in a custom system, you have to create a custom
> profile. That ufed doesn't show it is correct.
> 
> The 2008 multilib profile is /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/2008.0/
> 
The profile I was using was /usr/portage/default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop.
That should give me the multilib flag or not?
Gerard.

Comment 3 Gerard van Vuuren 2008-07-31 14:53:58 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > The multilib use flag is masked in the base profile and purposefully forced
> > only for specific profiles. You cannot toggle it, since you're not supposed to.
> > When you want to set it in a custom system, you have to create a custom
> > profile. That ufed doesn't show it is correct.
> > 
> > The 2008 multilib profile is /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/2008.0/
> > 
> The profile I was using was /usr/portage/default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop.
> That should give me the multilib flag or not?
> Gerard.
> 
Forgot to type "profiles" in the above profile.