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