Which profile to use??

[snakeo2]

I recently noticed that when I run "eselect profile list", i dont see a profile that is being used. Normally, I see a profile with an * next to it which tells me that said profile is being used. My question, is which one should I be using? Any advantages/disadvantages in using the latest one? thanks in advance

eselect profile list

Available profile symlink targets:
[1] default-linux/amd64/2007.0
[2] default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop
[3] default-linux/amd64/2007.0/no-multilib
[4] default-linux/amd64/2007.0/server
[5] hardened/amd64
[6] hardened/amd64/multilib
[7] selinux/2007.0/amd64
[8] selinux/2007.0/amd64/hardened
[9] default/linux/amd64/2008.0
[10] default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop
[11] default/linux/amd64/2008.0/developer
[12] default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib
[13] default/linux/amd64/2008.0/server
[14] hardened/linux/amd64
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[krinn]

if you don't know, then i would say 10
-> nomultilib is a bad choice imo
-> 2007, well, why use one that will be drop soon or later
-> hardened, a kinda specific use, and if you don't know witch one to use, then must not be the one for you
-> server/developper well, kinda same as hardened but less impact imo

so remain 9 & 10, and i choose 10.

Profile define some default tools/apps that your gentoo will consider vitals for you to have, must be the ones in system: gcc, glibc... some blacklist, some depend on arch...
if gentoo progs for example decide that 2008 will support dhcp, they put dhcpcd in the profile and your gentoo will build it (even you don't need/use it) as a default tool to have.

edit: i forget selinux, but as hardened...

[Sadako]

If you don't currently have a profile selected then portage should be completely freaking out...

What does `ls -l /etc/make.profile` return?

Anyways, I agree with krinn for the most part, only I avoid the desktop profiles, as generally the only difference is a crapload of more USE flags enabled by default, and I prefer to just enable the ones I want rather than disabling those I don't, so I'd go with 9.

If you were using or needed no-multilib, hardened, or selinux, you would undoubtably know about it anyways.
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[snakeo2]

Thanks for the replies....

here is the output

ls -l /etc/make.profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 59 Jan 29 2007 /etc/make.profile -> ..//usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop


wow...i think it is time to upate my profile selection.
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[NathanZachary]

When you change your profile, you should probably do an emerge -avuDN world to start taking advantage of the new USE flags. The profile update will set different USE flags, so things will need to be recompiled.
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[snakeo2]

thanks to the tip kalos,

one last question, how do i switch profiles? thanks in advance.
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[szczerb]

'eselect profile set number'

[notHerbert]

Just for the record, these are the commands you need to run (example: for a desktop profile)

[snakeo2]

i have changed my profile and proceeded to do an system upgrade. however, i couldnt get too far. here are the errors im getting:

emerge -uDNav world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating world dependencies \
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "~x11-wm/emerald-0.7.8" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- x11-wm/emerald-0.7.8 (masked by: EAPI 2)

The current version of portage supports EAPI '1'. You must upgrade to a
newer version of portage before EAPI masked packages can be installed.

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
(dependency required by "x11-wm/compiz-fusion-0.7.8" [ebuild])



!!! Problem resolving dependencies for x11-wm/compiz-fusion
!!! Depgraph creation failed.

it looks like i need to update portage since it is complaining about it....do i simply run "emerge portage"...? thanks in advance.
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[padoor]

please be careful when you run depclean.
have look twicw before removing the packages it says going to remove.
gcc will be removed if you dont look. protect your current gcc before running depclean.
you can do it as a last resort.
do rest of the things notHerbert has suggested.
you have very old profile. you change to latest profile/desktop
lot of emerge waiting
edit:
emerge --sync
emerge portage
emerge -DuNav world
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[snakeo2]

i just ran emerge portage and everything went fine, yet it is still complaining that I should upgrade portage. any advise....


emerge -DuNav world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating world dependencies \
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "~x11-wm/emerald-0.7.8" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- x11-wm/emerald-0.7.8 (masked by: EAPI 2)

The current version of portage supports EAPI '1'. You must upgrade to a
newer version of portage before EAPI masked packages can be installed.

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
(dependency required by "x11-wm/compiz-fusion-0.7.8" [ebuild])



!!! Problem resolving dependencies for x11-wm/compiz-fusion
!!! Depgraph creation failed.
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[notHerbert]

You can keyword emerald

[snakeo2]

notherbert,

did what you suggested and still getting the same error message.

i dont understand why it keep complaining about updating portage when i just did it

"The current version of portage supports EAPI '1'. You must upgrade to a
newer version of portage before EAPI masked packages can be installed."

any suggestions...?
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[notHerbert]

Try just updating your system first

[snakeo2]

emerge -uDN system
Calculating system dependencies... done!
[ebuild U ] sys-libs/timezone-data-2008g-r1 [2008e]
[ebuild R ] sys-devel/bc-1.06.95 USE="static*"
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-1.6f-r2 [1.6f-r1]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/findutils-4.4.0 [4.3.13]
[ebuild U ] app-editors/nano-2.1.5 [2.1.2-r1]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/gawk-3.1.6 [3.1.5-r5]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-3.12 [3.08]
[ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2 USE="(multilib*)"
[ebuild R ] sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1 USE="(multilib*)"
[ebuild U ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8h-r1 [0.9.8g-r2]
[ebuild R ] dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7 USE="(-bootstrap%)"
[ebuild R ] net-nds/openldap-2.3.43 USE="minimal*"
[ebuild R ] net-misc/wget-1.11.1 USE="static*"
[ebuild U ] dev-libs/libxml2-2.7.2-r1 [2.6.32]
[ebuild U ] net-misc/openssh-5.1_p1-r1 [4.7_p1-r6] USE="static*"
[ebuild U ] sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41.2 [1.40.9]
[ebuild N ] sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.2 USE="nls"
[ebuild U ] app-crypt/mit-krb5-1.6.3-r4 [1.6.3-r1]
[blocks B ] sys-libs/ss (is blocking sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.2)
[blocks B ] sys-libs/com_err (is blocking sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.2)
[blocks B ] <sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41 (is blocking sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.2)
[blocks B ] sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs (is blocking sys-libs/ss-1.40.9, sys-libs/com_err-1.40.9)

* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
* installed at the same time on the same system.

For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following
section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant):

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked

do i need to unmerge e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.2???
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[zyko]

[d2_racing]

Hi, you have the e2fsprogs problem.

You need to do this :

[notHerbert]

To get the latest portage do this

[snakeo2]

everything seem to be going fine until it crashed emerging wget:

checking for mbtowc... yes
checking for struct utimbuf... yes
checking for socklen_t... socklen_t
checking for working fnmatch.h... yes
checking for nanosleep... yes
checking for clock_gettime... no
checking for clock_gettime in -lrt... yes
checking for gethostbyname... yes
checking for inet_ntoa... yes
checking for socket in -lsocket... no
checking for getopt_long... yes
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
checking for libssl... no
configure: error: --with-ssl was given, but SSL is not available.

!!! Please attach the following file when seeking support:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/net-misc/wget-1.11.1/work/wget-1.11.1/config.log
*
* ERROR: net-misc/wget-1.11.1 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile
* environment, line 2447: Called econf 'src_compile' 'src_compile' '--with-ssl' '--enable-opie' '--enable-digest' '--enable-ipv6' '--enable-nls'
* ebuild.sh, line 519: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* die "econf failed"
* The die message:
* econf failed
*
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
* A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/wget-1.11.1/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/wget-1.11.1/temp/environment'.
*

* Messages for package sys-libs/timezone-data-2008g-r1:

* You do not have TIMEZONE set in /etc/conf.d/clock.
* Skipping auto-update of /etc/localtime.

* Messages for package app-editors/nano-2.1.5:

* More helpful info about nano, visit the GDP page:
* http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nano-basics-guide.xml

* Messages for package app-crypt/mit-krb5-1.6.3-r4:

* See /usr/share/doc/mit-krb5-1.6.3-r4/html/krb5-admin.html for documentation.

* Messages for package dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8h-r1:

* Old versions of installed libraries were detected on your system.
* In order to avoid breaking packages that depend on these old libs,
* the libraries are not being removed. You need to run revdep-rebuild
* in order to remove these old dependencies. If you do not have this
* helper program, simply emerge the 'gentoolkit' package.
*
* # revdep-rebuild --library libcrypto.so.0.9.7
* # revdep-rebuild --library libssl.so.0.9.7
*
* Once you've finished running revdep-rebuild, it should be safe to
* delete the old libraries. Here is a copy & paste for the lazy:
* # rm '/usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.0.9.6'
* # rm '/usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.0.9.7'
* # rm '/usr/lib64/libssl.so.0.9.6'
* # rm '/usr/lib64/libssl.so.0.9.7'

* Messages for package dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7:

*
* If you have just upgraded from an older version of python you will
* need to run:
*
* /usr/sbin/python-updater
*
* This will automatically rebuild all the python dependent modules
* to run with python-2.5.
*
* Your original Python is still installed and can be accessed via
* /usr/bin/python2.x.
*

* Messages for package net-misc/wget-1.11.1:

*
* ERROR: net-misc/wget-1.11.1 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile
* environment, line 2447: Called econf 'src_compile' 'src_compile' '--with-ssl' '--enable-opie' '--enable-digest' '--enable-ipv6' '--enable-nls'
* ebuild.sh, line 519: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* die "econf failed"
* The die message:
* econf failed
*
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
* A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/wget-1.11.1/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/wget-1.11.1/temp/environment'.
*
* Regenerating GNU info directory index...
* Processed 170 info files.
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[snakeo2]

ok, i went ahead and ran "emerge --skip-first resume" and everything went ok until the last ebuild. here is the error message:


//usr/lib64/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function `dlfcn_load':
(.text+0x5c2): warning: Using 'dlopen' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lgssapi_krb5
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
usr/lib64/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): make: *** [ssh] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
In function `dlfcn_load':
(.text+0x5c2): warning: Using 'dlopen' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lgssapi_krb5
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [sshd] Error 1
*
* ERROR: net-misc/openssh-5.1_p1-r1 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile
* environment, line 3174: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* emake || die "compile problem"
* The die message:
* compile problem
*
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
* A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/openssh-5.1_p1-r1/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/openssh-5.1_p1-r1/temp/environment'.
*

* Messages for package sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2:

* If you have issues with packages unable to locate libstdc++.la,
* then try running 'fix_libtool_files.sh' on the old gcc versions.

* Messages for package sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1:

* Generating all locales; edit /etc/locale.gen to save time/space

* Messages for package net-nds/openldap-2.3.43:

*
* Getting started using OpenLDAP? There is some documentation available:
* Gentoo Guide to OpenLDAP Authentication
* (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ldap-howto.xml)
*
*
* An example file for tuning BDB backends with openldap is:
* /usr/share/doc/openldap-2.3.43/DB_CONFIG.fast.example.gz
*

* Messages for package net-misc/openssh-5.1_p1-r1:

*
* ERROR: net-misc/openssh-5.1_p1-r1 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile
* environment, line 3174: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* emake || die "compile problem"
* The die message:
* compile problem
*
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
* A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/openssh-5.1_p1-r1/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/openssh-5.1_p1-r1/temp/environment'.
*
* Disabling pam support becuse of static flag
* GNU info directory index is up-to-date.
* IMPORTANT: 58 config files in '/etc' need updating.
* IMPORTANT: 4 config files in '/usr/kde/3.5/share/config' need updating.
* IMPORTANT: 3 config files in '/var/bind' need updating.
* See the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge
* man page to learn how to update config files.

it looks like it couldnt find a specific ebuild "d: cannot find -lgssapi_krb5
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [sshd] Error 1"???? other than this error, i believe that all these commands executed well:

emerge -fuDNv system
# emerge -C ss com_err e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-libs
# emerge -uDNv system
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[notHerbert]

Post your emerge --info

and run emerge -e system

[snakeo2]

ok, i found a thread that dealt with the same issue, and now openssh has merged successfully. im trying to run emerge world and now im encountering the following errors:

emerge -DuNav world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating world dependencies |
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=app-admin/eselect-news-20071201" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- app-admin/eselect-news-20080320 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)
- app-admin/eselect-news-20071201 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
(dependency required by "sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc15" [ebuild])



!!! Problem resolving dependencies for sys-apps/man-pages
!!! Depgraph creation failed.
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[notHerbert]

Please post your emerge --info

[snakeo2]

sorry for the delay,, here you go:

emerge --info
Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:37:04 +0000
app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -msse3 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -msse3 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.netnitco.net ftp://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/ http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.llarian.net/ ftp://gentoo.llarian.net/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.binarycompass.org ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.cs.lewisu.edu/gentoo/ http://prometheus.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo http://modzer0.cs.uaf.edu/public/gentoo/ "
LANG="C"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 audio automount avahi avi berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus divx4linux dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam fame firefox fortran gdbm gif glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal howl iconv imap ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kerberos ldap ldapsam libnotify libwww live mad maildir matroska mdnsresponder-compat midi mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png postgres ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sasl sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subtitles suexec svg swat sysfs tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode usb vda vorbis winbind xanim xcb xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
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[notHerbert]

Ok, and if you do emerge -e system do you get errors?

You should probably take a look at /etc/locale.gen.