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I've been having this message appear whenever I try to do an 'emerge' on a new or existing package on my Gentoo Linux server.


* This profile has not been tested thoroughly and is not considered to be
* a supported server profile at this time. For a supported server
* profile, please check the Hardened project (http://hardened.gentoo.org).

* This profile is merely a convenience for people who require a more
* minimal profile, yet are unable to use hardened due to restrictions in
* the software being used on the server. This profile should also be used
* if you require GCC 4.1 or Glibc 2.4 support. If you don't know if this
* applies to you, then it doesn't and you should probably be using


I used to be getting these messages because I had selected to use the 'server' profile that used to be available - however is wasn't properly supported, but I didn't mind. So I ignored those messsages. However after looking into this recently I found this post:

http://www.uno-code.com/?q=node/102

and noticed that I could easily select a working profile that would not give me that error message:

# eselect profile list
Available profile symlink targets:
  [1]   default-linux/x86/2006.1 *
  [2]   default-linux/x86/no-nptl
  [3]   default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop
  [4]   default-linux/x86/2007.0
  [5]   default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop
  [6]   hardened/x86/2.6
  [7]   selinux/2007.0/x86
  [8]   selinux/2007.0/x86/hardened
  [9]   default/linux/x86/2008.0
  [10]  default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop
  [11]  default/linux/x86/2008.0/developer
  [12]  default/linux/x86/2008.0/no-nptl
  [13]  default/linux/x86/2008.0/server
  [14]  hardened/linux/x86

SP2971c var # eselect profile set 9

SP2971c var # eselect profile list
Available profile symlink targets:
  [1]   default-linux/x86/2006.1
  [2]   default-linux/x86/no-nptl
  [3]   default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop
  [4]   default-linux/x86/2007.0
  [5]   default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop
  [6]   hardened/x86/2.6
  [7]   selinux/2007.0/x86
  [8]   selinux/2007.0/x86/hardened
  [9]   default/linux/x86/2008.0 *
  [10]  default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop
  [11]  default/linux/x86/2008.0/developer
  [12]  default/linux/x86/2008.0/no-nptl
  [13]  default/linux/x86/2008.0/server
  [14]  hardened/linux/x86

after that I just needed to add a few USE flags (snmp, mailwrapper, 1 or 2 others) that were not in the new (working) profile into /etc/make.conf - and done!

Loving TF2 from Valve - such a fun team oriented game.

http://kotaku.com/380496/medic-hands-on-with-the-new-tf2-map-plus-new-medic-achievements-and-weapons-revealed

Just saw this - looks great!

http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18270

With MythTV moving to QT4, which has a wider range of functionality on various devices, plus a whole host of improvements - I think things are definately on the upswing for MythTV.

I have several Gentoo Linux machines set up for various purposes - and I've decided to get them all up to speed for programming / version control / backup. Stage one: install various apps like PhpMyAdmin for direct database access.

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