From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D8B8F1382C5 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2018 20:24:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 36F55E09F5; Tue, 10 Apr 2018 20:23:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from very.loosely.org (very.loosely.org [173.255.215.69]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C607BE053C for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2018 20:23:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.8.78.6] (port=36332 helo=matica.foolinux.mooo.com) by ahiker.mooo.com with esmtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1f5zo1-0007pJ-HI for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:23:53 -0700 Received: from itz by matica.foolinux.mooo.com with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1f5znu-00057H-Aq for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:23:46 -0700 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:23:46 -0700 From: Ian Zimmerman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Wrong instructions when installing Oracle JRE Message-ID: <20180410202346.p5d3gdzpxp6t2hco@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Loosely-Listed: yes User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170707-dirty (1.8.3) X-Archives-Salt: c1ad915a-aa8c-448f-98b9-23a3e2d26d0d X-Archives-Hash: 615ad559f17544064d09e671c26751f6 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-2133155.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? -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.