[gentoo-dev] User defined license groups
Hey guys, I ran with ACCEPT_LICENSE=* for a while and a few days ago I decided to look into the licenses the programs I'm using need and read up on them, then add them manually. I then remembered the license groups and proceeded to specify my own license group in /usr/portage/profiles/license_groups, first emerge -uDN @world worked great, all downgrades from license masking were dropped. But then I sync'ed my tree, and now my own group is gone. So I was wondering if there is another place to specify license groups? If not, would I go to the bugzilla and file a bug for a feature request or is there another way to go about it? -- Best Regards Zeerak Waseem
Re: [gentoo-dev] User defined license groups
On 02/01/2011 01:35 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
Hey guys,
I ran with ACCEPT_LICENSE=* for a while and a few days ago I decided to
look into the licenses the programs I'm using need and read up on them, then
add them manually.
I then remembered the license groups and proceeded to specify my own license
group in /usr/portage/profiles/license_groups, first emerge -uDN @world
worked great, all downgrades from license masking were dropped. But then I
sync'ed my tree, and now my own group is gone.
So I was wondering if there is another place to specify license groups? If
not, would I go to the bugzilla and file a bug for a feature request or is
there another way to go about it?
It's possible to add license groups via an overlay, which means that you
can set PORTDIR_OVERLAY=${MY_OVERLAY} in /etc/make.conf, and then
define your license groups in ${MY_OVERLAY}/profiles/license_groups.
You can go ahead and file a bug at bugs.gentoo.org if you'd like to have
support added for /etc/portage/license_groups.
--
Thanks,
Zac
Re: [gentoo-dev] User defined license groups
On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 02:05:49 -0800
Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote:
On 02/01/2011 01:35 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
Hey guys,
I ran with ACCEPT_LICENSE=* for a while and a few days ago I
decided to look into the licenses the programs I'm using need and
read up on them, then add them manually. I then remembered the
license groups and proceeded to specify my own license group
in /usr/portage/profiles/license_groups, first emerge -uDN @world
worked great, all downgrades from license masking were dropped. But
then I sync'ed my tree, and now my own group is gone.
So I was wondering if there is another place to specify license
groups? If not, would I go to the bugzilla and file a bug for a
feature request or is there another way to go about it?
It's possible to add license groups via an overlay, which means that
you can set PORTDIR_OVERLAY=${MY_OVERLAY} in /etc/make.conf, and
then define your license groups in
${MY_OVERLAY}/profiles/license_groups.
You can go ahead and file a bug at bugs.gentoo.org if you'd like to
have support added for /etc/portage/license_groups.
How about /etc/portage/profile? Won't that work?
--
Best regards,
Michał Górny
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Re: [gentoo-dev] User defined license groups
On 02/01/2011 02:27 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 02:05:49 -0800
Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote:
On 02/01/2011 01:35 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
Hey guys,
I ran with ACCEPT_LICENSE=* for a while and a few days ago I
decided to look into the licenses the programs I'm using need and
read up on them, then add them manually. I then remembered the
license groups and proceeded to specify my own license group
in /usr/portage/profiles/license_groups, first emerge -uDN @world
worked great, all downgrades from license masking were dropped. But
then I sync'ed my tree, and now my own group is gone.
So I was wondering if there is another place to specify license
groups? If not, would I go to the bugzilla and file a bug for a
feature request or is there another way to go about it?
It's possible to add license groups via an overlay, which means that
you can set PORTDIR_OVERLAY=${MY_OVERLAY} in /etc/make.conf, and
then define your license groups in
${MY_OVERLAY}/profiles/license_groups.
You can go ahead and file a bug at bugs.gentoo.org if you'd like to
have support added for /etc/portage/license_groups.
How about /etc/portage/profile? Won't that work?
No, because profiles/license_groups is somewhat of a misnomer since the
profiles/ directory contains profiles but it is not actual a part of any
profile.
Anyway, it turns out that /etc/portage/license_groups is already
supported, so I've added it to the man page:
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=731549e94963d808ea49c408167cd85947e20b1d
--
Thanks,
Zac
