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| From: | Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o, Pratyush Das <reikdas@×××××.com> | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Error logs | ||
| Date: | Mon, 31 Dec 2018 06:43:48 | ||
| Message-Id: | 9eff863a-9637-4a36-da6b-4d0b53c3cc17@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Error logs by Pratyush Das |
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| 1 | On 12/30/18 9:51 PM, Pratyush Das wrote: |
| 2 | > For oracle-jdk - https://pastebin.com/iT1XsfUv |
| 3 | > In this case the log tells you to download jdk-8u192-linux-x64.tar.gz |
| 4 | > from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html |
| 5 | > and place it in your distfiles directory. But it does not tell you where |
| 6 | > your distfiles directory is. (This is more descriptive than cudnn and |
| 7 | > one could run a recursive bash script to find the distfiles directory |
| 8 | > but instead of saying distfiles directory, if it printed out the actual |
| 9 | > directory location it would be far more convenient) |
| 10 | > |
| 11 | > Regards, |
| 12 | |
| 13 | I'm sorry to say that it's intentionally vague. Since ebuilds run in a |
| 14 | environment standardized environment [1], the true location of your |
| 15 | distfiles directory is not strictly knowable within ebuild scope. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | To make things more interesting, there are plans to roll out a split |
| 18 | distfiles directory structure [2]. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Package_Manager_Specification |
| 21 | [2] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0075.html |
| 22 | -- |
| 23 | Thanks, |
| 24 | Zac |
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