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 DBA951382C5 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2018 10:44:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 87F0BE095A; Wed, 11 Apr 2018 10:44:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.7]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 160ABE092C for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2018 10:44:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=peak.localnet) by smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1f6DEz-0000pj-ST for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2018 10:44:37 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong instructions when installing Oracle JRE Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 11:44:37 +0100 Message-ID: <26272972.VHF8g2ltU4@peak> In-Reply-To: <0ab579f6-d621-5410-6cb2-d53925a2d431@gmail.com> References: <20180410202346.p5d3gdzpxp6t2hco@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> <0ab579f6-d621-5410-6cb2-d53925a2d431@gmail.com> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01d-IP: [82.69.80.10] Feedback-ID: 82.69.80.10 X-Archives-Salt: 427d5b3f-2b9f-49d7-acff-51fb27076d49 X-Archives-Hash: 7c9689665c3806a097fb67a4924649a4 On Wednesday, 11 April 2018 11:27:39 BST Dale wrote: > R0b0t1 wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 11:08 PM, Dale wrote: > >> J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>> Sounds like a bug. > >>> All fetch restriction packages I encounter want it in your distfiles > >>> folder. (Wherever you configured it to be) > >>> > >>> I haven't really read the text on these myself lately, so not sure if > >>> other packages have the same, but I didn't notice any path other than > >>> my distfiles dir. > >>> > >>> Most common one I have is the citrix 'icaclient'. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Joost > >> > >> Picking random post to reply to so anyone can respond to this question. > >> I recall years ago there was talk of moving distfiles and such to a > >> directory in /var on new installs at least. At the time, I moved mine > >> to /var/cache/portage. I seem to recall that another location ended up > >> being picked. Does anyone recall if the move ever did occur and if so, > >> where it went? I recall reading about it but can't recall what was > >> final on it or if it ended up being moved at all. > > > > Do you mean /usr/portage/distfiles? > > > > Can we stop using Oracle's JVM? > > > > Cheers, > > > > R0b0t1 > > I think that is where they were talking about moving it from. At one > point, they were discussing putting it in /var somewhere. Maybe they > decided not to move it at all. I seem to recall there being a quite > active and lengthy thread about it on -dev but that was years ago. I > don't think my archives go back that far. > > Oh well. I was just curious. Mine is in /var/cache/portage/. At the > time, that I think had the most support. Either way, it works for me > and it can be put pretty much anywhere sensible. Especially if you have separate partitions, as I do. Portage, packages and distfiles can be mounted anywhere with simple changes to fstab and make.conf. That makes the debates over what should live where somewhat moot. -- Regards, Peter.