At long last, Gentoo 2008.0 is out. Yeah, I know. If you already have Gentoo installed, who cares about a new release? Releases are good for the distribution as a whole. It stirs interest from people who haven’t tried Gentoo and also inspires articles on websites and magazines.
Anyway… I decided to switch to the 2008.0 profile. Usually, I just delete the /etc/make.profile symlink and create a new one to the latest and greatest profile. This time I figured I would give eselect a try. It changed the symlink fine, but I got the following error when trying to use emerge:
!!! Unable to parse profile: '/etc/make.profile'
!!! ParseError: Parent '/usr/portage/profiles/releases/2008.0' not found: '/usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/2008.0/parent'.
So, I deleted the symlink it created and did it manually. Got the same error. It turns out, some rsync servers either don’t have or aren’t propagating the new /usr/portage/profiles/releases directory. After doing another emerge –sync, it created the releases directory for me and I was good to go. 
2 Responses to "Upgrading to 2008 profile wierdness"
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gregf
July 9th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I have my profile set to the following.
/usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/2008.0
Also I would recommend using eselect rather than just doing the link by hand.
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John Alberts
July 9th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
I did try eselect at first, but the problem seems to be with some servers not having the new releases directory, or at least the releases directory not being sync’d properly.
There’s quite a few threads on it in the forums, but for some reason, it took me quite a while to find it. The search function on the forum really sucks.
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