Re: [gentoo-catalyst] How to accept licences

[Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Martino Dell'Ambrogio
<martino.dellambrogio@kyos.ch> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to build a livecd with catalyst 2.0.6.916.
>
> While building the livecd-stage1 target I've got this obvious error:
>
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "dev-java/sun-jdk" have been masked.
> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
> request:
> - dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.26 (masked by: dlj-1.1 license(s))
>
> I set portage_confdir to a path with a package.license file containing the
> line "dev-java/sun-jdk dlj-1.1", but I got the same result.
>
> I tried with a package.license directory, with a "*" flag, even with an
> export ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" within catalystrc, but portage seems to ignore all
> of them.
> The portage version is 2.1.9.42 for both host and build. Also both systems
> are amd64.
>
> I can't seem to find my error anywhere, and I guess catalyst is aware of
> everything LICENSE-related or it wouldn't be possible to build the official
> distributions, right? Thank you for your help.

Actually, the only references I see to 'license' when I grep the
catalyst source appear in license headers.

It looks to me like catalyst doesn't export any way to modify
ACCEPT_LICENSES, though I would have thought that putting 'export
ACCEPT_LICENSES=...' in catalystrc would work.

Matt