On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My first install of Gentoo, and I'm pleased by how far I've progressed on my > own, not being a programmer or computer person, but I'm a bit wary of > proceeding further without advice. > > I was trying to emerge some several files which had a dependency on > java-sdk-docs. Below is the message from emerge. More information will > follow. > > !!! dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.6.0-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. > > * Please download jdk-6-doc.zip from > * > https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_Developer-Site/en_US/-/USD/[EMAIL > PROTECTED] > * (select English and agree to the licence) and place it in > /usr/portage/distfiles named as > * jdk-6-doc-r1.zip. Notice the r1. Because Sun changes the doc zip file > * without changing the filename, we have to resort to renaming to keep > * the md5sum verification working for existing and new downloads. > * [snip] > So, I downloaded the file, renamed it and put it where it told me to. Fine, you should indeed have downloaded the jdk-6-doc.zip file and put it (with the correct name) in portage's DISTDIR (DISTDIR is, by default, /usr/portage/distfiles).
> Then I > found http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds and I am > trying to follow that. No no no, this is *not* a third party ebuild. It is an official Gentoo ebuild, that unfortunately needs you to manually fetch this jdk-6-doc.zip file. This is *not* a third party ebuild. Rest assured that manually fetching files is, fortunately, very uncommon. > > I added PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/distfiles" to > /etc/make.conf No. Undo this. /usr/porage/distfiles is *not* a portage overlay and *must not* be in PORTDIR_OVERLAY. Remove it. /usr/local/portage is a common location for putting a gentoo overlay, but since you probably don't have an overlay (many, if not most, people don't need an overlay), don't care about /usr/local/portage. Remove the directory name from PORTDIR_OVERLAY and them remove the directory /usr/local/portage itself with the command rmdir --verbose /usr/local/portage. > I then added FEATURES="collision-protect ccache parallel-fetch" to > /etc/male.conf for safety, even though I have no idea what it does. Don't add features without a basic knowledge of what they mean. In fact, this is a big lesson: *Don't mess with your system without a basic knowledge of what you are doing* I did it more than once and broke my system more than once. Do not repeat the same mistake. Look /etc/make.conf.example for a brief explanation of what which feature means. I personally use parallell-fetch. It speeds up emerging multiple packages, because it enables Portage to download one package source in the background while it emerges another package in the foreground. In fact, I don't know why this isn't enabled by default. I don't use ccache, because AFAIK it speeds up compilation at the expense of consuming tons of disk space. I am satisfied with my compile speed (I use lightweight programs, and these tend to compile quickly), but I want my disk to have a lot of free space so that disk access is faster. collision-protect seems nice, but I don't know about its drawbacks (if any), and since it seems not to be default and I don't have good knowledge of it, I didn't change the default. [snip] > /usr/local/portage did not exist. > OK, so I created it. Now, that is where emerge told me to put the file No, it told you to put the file in /usr/portage/distfiles. [snip] > I am not sure how to proceed in creating my own Ebuild to install it. You don't need to, and very probably should not. > Am I even in the right ballpark here? No. *All* you had to do was fetch the required file and put it, with the specified name, in Portage's DISTDIR, which is /usr/portage/distfiles by default. Everything else you did without knowing what you were doing should probably be undone, to return the system to its safe default configuration. > Thanks, > Bo Grimes You're welcome -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds
