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: [email protected]
> * 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.
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Regards,
Peter.
