Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Error logs

[Pratyush Das]

For oracle-jdk - https://pastebin.com/iT1XsfUv
In this case the log tells you to download jdk-8u192-linux-x64.tar.gz from
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html
and place it in your distfiles directory. But it does not tell you where
your distfiles directory is. (This is more descriptive than cudnn and one
could run a recursive bash script to find the distfiles directory but
instead of saying distfiles directory, if it printed out the actual
directory location it would be far more convenient)

Regards,


On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 01:45, M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@×××.org> wrote:

> On 30/12/18 19:58, Pratyush Das wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> In reference to this forum post -
> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1091144-highlight-.html , I was
> told that several users found wrong information in the portage error logs
> pointing them to the wrong directory for distfiles to be downloaded and
> placed in for the emerge to work when the tree variable was displayed to
> the user, for the user to place the downloaded files in.
> Instead of not using the tree variable to point to the distfiles location
> (and having a less descriptive error message), was using some other form of
> keeping a track of where the files are stored discussed? Or figuring out
> why the variable pointed to the wrong directory?
>
> I could take a look at it if that is a feature you would be open to
> having.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Pratyush Das(Reik)
>
> Can you highlight some more examples (good & bad) as even the forum post
> doesn't really go into much detail about what's present and missing? I can
> see that dev-libs/cudnn is poor - usually LICENSE-restricted files give
> some sensible directions, iirc. Not sure quite why this package is an
> exception if it's problematic in being mirrored ...
> Regards,
>
> Michael/veremitz.
>


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Pratyush Das(Reik)