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

[John Covici]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 22:18:47 -0400,
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 10:16 PM John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Thanks John.
>
> The Handbook does not say to make any configuration changes. That
> seems safe to me since I have no idea what changes to make.
>
> Jeff
>

OK, remember where it said at the end of your portage output that
there were several configuration files that needed updating?  Run
etc-update and you will see the differences between the current and
new configuration files and you will see the necessary changes and you
should accept them and try your emerge again after accepting them.

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici wb2una
         covici@××××××××××.com