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: j...@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.