Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix license error during install?

[John Covici]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 21:16:10 -0400,
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm having trouble installing Gentoo in a Virtual Box VM for testing.
> It is a x86_64 guest. I selected a hardened profile to test PaX, which
> means I selected 18 in 'eselect profile'.
>
> I'm at "Configuring the Linux kernel" in the Handbook
> (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Kernel#Alternative:_Using_genkernel).
> The part "emerge --ask sys-kernel/gentoo-sources" seems OK and does
> not report errors. The genkernel part fails.
>
> The specific error is:
>
> $ LICENSE_ACCEPT="*" emerge --ask --autounmask-write
> sys-kernel/genkernel 2>&1 | tee kernel.txt
> $ cat kernel.txt
>
>  * IMPORTANT: 6 config files in '/etc/portage' need updating.
> Calculating dependencies   * See the CONFIGURATION FILES and
> CONFIGURATION FILES UPDATE TOOLS
>  * sections of the emerge man page to learn how to update config files.
> ... done!
> [ebuild  N     ] app-arch/cpio-2.12-r1  USE="nls"
> [ebuild  N     ] sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20200316
> USE="redistributable -initramfs -savedconfig (-unknown-license)"
> [ebuild  N     ] sys-kernel/genkernel-4.0.4  USE="firmware (-ibm)"
>
> The following license changes are necessary to proceed:
>  (see "package.license" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
> # required by sys-kernel/genkernel-4.0.4::gentoo[firmware]
> # required by genkernel (argument)
> =sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20200316 linux-fw-redistributable no-source-code
>
> Autounmask changes successfully written.
>
>  * IMPORTANT: 7 config files in '/etc/portage' need updating.
>  * See the CONFIGURATION FILES and CONFIGURATION FILES UPDATE TOOLS
>  * sections of the emerge man page to learn how to update config
> files.Here is the
>
> Here is the portage(5) man page:
> https://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/man/portage.5.html. Here
> is the part about package.license:
>
>     This will allow ACCEPT_LICENSE (see make.conf(5)) to be augmented
> for a single package.
>
>     Format:
>
>         - comment lines begin with # (no inline comments)
>         - one DEPEND atom per line followed by additional licenses or groups
>
> Removing LICENSE_ACCEPT="*" and --autounmask-write does not help.
>
> The information provided in portage(5) and package.license leaves a
> lot to be desired.
>
> What is the problem and how do I fix it?
>

Well, you need to change your config files as portage asked you to do
before proceeding.  There are several utilities to do that, I use
etc-update, but there are several others.

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