On Friday 16 September 2005 18.54, Holly Bostick wrote: > Chris Woods schreef: > > On Sep 16, 2005, at 10:02 AM, Andreas Karlsson wrote: > >> * Please download j2sdk-1_4_2_09-linux-i586.bin from: * > >> http://javashoplm.sun.com/ECom/docs/Welcome.jsp? > >> StoreId=22&PartDetailId=j2sdk-1.4.2_09-oth- > >> JPR&SiteId=JSC&TransactionId=noreg * (SDK 32-bit/64-bit for > >> Windows/Linux/Solaris SPARC 32-bit for Solaris x86, then select > >> download Linux Self-extracting. * and move it to /distfiles > > > > Mine tells me to move it to /usr/portage/distfiles. Sounds like > > there's an environment variable that tells portage where to find > > distfiles, and yours for some reason is set to "/distfiles". > > > > Cheers, Chris > > Oooh, nice catch! I was looking at this and didn't see that.... anyway, > the environment variable you're talking about is in /etc/make.conf, and > looks like this: > > PORTDIR=/usr/portage > DISTDIR=${PORTDIR}/distfiles > > So the resulting DISTDIR variable expands to /usr/portage/distfiles > (since ${PORTDIR}=/usr/portage). > > That's where I'd check to see if something went wrong (perhaps > /etc/make.conf was improperly edited?). > > Holly
Yes. By some strange reason PORTDIR=/usr/portage was commented with a #. I don ´t remeber editing the file at that region (only changed some USE flags). After uncommenting the line it worked perfect. Thanks for the help! Best regards, Andreas Karlsson
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