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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong instructions when installing Oracle JRE
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 23:43:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1640478.XlnkJcXX0B@peak> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180410202346.p5d3gdzpxp6t2hco@matica.foolinux.mooo.com>

On Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:23:46 BST Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> When I do emerge dev-java/oracle-jre-bin, portage quoth:
> 
> !!! dev-java/oracle-jre-bin-1.8.0.162-r1 has fetch restriction turned on.
> !!! This probably means that this ebuild's files must be downloaded
> !!! manually.  See the comments in the ebuild for more information.
> 
>  * Fetch failed for 'dev-java/oracle-jre-bin-1.8.0.162-r1', Log file:
>  * 
> '/var/log/portage/dev-java:oracle-jre-bin-1.8.0.162-r1:20180410-201117.log'
> * Package:    dev-java/oracle-jre-bin-1.8.0.162-r1
>  * Repository: gentoo
>  * Maintainer: java@gentoo.org
>  * USE:        abi_x86_64 alsa amd64 elibc_glibc fontconfig kernel_linux
> userland_GNU * FEATURES:   fakeroot preserve-libs sandbox userpriv
>  * Please download jre-8u162-linux-x64.tar.gz and move it to
>  * /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/oracle-jre-bin-1.8.0.162-r1/distdir:
>  *
>  *  
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre8-downloads-2133
> 155.html
> 
> But no matter how much I tried to please it (copying the file into a
> distdir/ subdirectory, or copying it _as a file_ called distdir) I
> couldn't get it to work.
> 
> OTOH, just doing what first comes to mind (putting the file in
> /usr/portage/distfiles/) does work.
> 
> what the foo?

As Dale said, the ebuild's instruction is wrong. All such files, as far as I 
know, go into ${DISTDIR}. I've had a few of them recently and they've all 
worked that way.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-04-10 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-10 20:23 [gentoo-user] Wrong instructions when installing Oracle JRE Ian Zimmerman
2018-04-10 20:55 ` Dale
2018-04-10 22:43 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2018-04-11  0:49 ` [gentoo-user] " Jonathan Callen
2018-04-11  3:22 ` [gentoo-user] " J. Roeleveld
2018-04-11  4:08   ` Dale
2018-04-11  6:08     ` R0b0t1
2018-04-11 10:27       ` Dale
2018-04-11 10:44         ` Peter Humphrey
2018-04-11 11:02           ` Dale
2018-04-11 13:15         ` Michael Orlitzky
2018-04-11 13:25           ` Dale
2018-04-12 16:19       ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman

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