I was using the 2004.3 profile, and upgraded as recommended by Portage, and used the following command as printed by Portage: # emerge -n '>=sys-apps/portage-2.0.51' # cd /etc/ # rm make.profile # ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0/2.4 make.profile When I later tried to do "emerge -s alsa", Portage said: !!! ARCH is not set... Are you missing the /etc/make.profile symlink? !!! Is the symlink correct? Is your portage tree complete? I removed the make.profile symbolic link, and replaced the last command above by ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0/2.4 make.profile (i.e. no periods before /usr), and Portage worked. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. cd /etc 2. rm make.profile 3. ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0/2.4 make.profile Actual Results: Portage complained about ARCH not being set when I used emerge commands. Expected Results: The last suggested command should be: ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0/2.4 make.profile for x86 profile with 2.4 kernel.
do you have your file system setup in some way with symlinks / bind mounts / etc... ? what is your `emerge info` ?
No to the first question. emerge info: Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.4.26-gentoo-r13 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26-gentoo-r13 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 8 2005, 15:32:12)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo canna cdr cjk crypt cups curl divx4linux dvd dvdr emboss encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran freewnn gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline scanner sdl slang snmp spell ssl svga tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_en linguas_ja" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
No problems here. Are you certain you typed it correctly? Can you reproduce it? If so, what does `ls -ln /etc/make.profile` after updating?
You're right, I must have typed it incorrectly. When I tried pasting the command instead of typing, it worked.
Okay.
