On Sat, Sep 10 2011, Alex Schuster wrote: > Allan Gottlieb writes: > >> My update world today produced >> >> >> So I need the Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE license. But I don't see where it >> tells me how to do this. Previous license requests said something like >> * go to URL xxx >> * click on YYY >> * store it in distfiles/ZZZ > > That is something different, when portage is not able to download > stuff. > > What you need to do is to tell portage you accept the license by putting > the >=dev-java/... line into /etc/portage/package.license. Or you could > add the --autounmask-write switch to your emerge command, and then use > etc-update/dispatch-conf/cfg-update or whatever you use to update the > config files.
Thank you, alex. That was exactly what was needed. *Then* portage was unable to download it and the three step procedure I mentioned was asked for and worked perfectly. Why do I need this sun/oracle jdk when I already have icedtea installed? Indeed, the next step in my normal procedure is to run emerge --depclean --ask, which then wanted to remove the just installed package. I will report this "portage loop" in a separate msg. In any event, thank you again. allan
