What are the Profiles?

CharlieS · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 4:33 am Post subject: What are the Profiles?

Been using gentoo for about 2 years now.. I was wondering what the different profiles actually are.. i know it is just a symbolic link.. what kind of effect does it have on the system?? i'm not sure i understand what they actually do.. i just keep changing them when a new one comes out...

L.U. · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 4:36 am Post subject:

You may have already read this, but in the event you haven't:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml
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evader · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 4:36 am Post subject:

Hi,

From what I understand the profile is the layout and contents of the gentoo base system. When a profile changes majorly, this is the only cause to ever really need to upgrade gentoo, other than the normal merge --sync and emerge world.

I believe the last major profile change was from 1.4 to 2004.x.

Hope that helps.
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Sven Vermeulen · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:25 am Post subject:

There is also some information on profiles in the profile update guide.