On 08/03/13 17:42, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Matt Joyce <mjo...@mttjocy.co.uk> wrote:
>> Ok, I really just do not get what on earth it thinks I'm doing wrong
>> here, trying to install java firstly the ebuild in portage it appears is
>> too old, it wants me to fetch a copy of 7u15 from a page that now only
>> has 7u17 on it so fail there no problem just update it surely can't be
>> that hard err right so created an up to date copy of the ebuild in my
>> overlay directory except it wont create the manifest repeatedly tells me
>> to put the file jre-7u17-linux-x64.tar.gz in /usr/portage/distfiles,
>> great ok so...
>
> Like Alan said you should "emerge --sync" and portage has an u17 ebuild.
>
> Otherwise Oracle lets you download old versions from:
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/archive-139210.html
>
Thanks, odd it's supposed to be doing emerge-webrsync on a daily cronjob
(Using that one because I have webrsync-gpg turned on) I should check
the log see if something is stopping that happening.  Thanks for
pointing it out to me.

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