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On Sunday 31 Jul 2016 13:27:59 Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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> On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 10:45:55 +0100 Mick wrote: |
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> > On Sunday 31 Jul 2016 11:09:36 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > On 31/07/2016 09:56, Mick wrote: |
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> > > > I got this after an update yesterday and was left puzzled as to what I |
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> > > > am |
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> > > > meant to do ... |
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> > > > |
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> > > > !!! The following installed packages are masked: |
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> > > > - www-client/opera-12.16_p1860-r1::gentoo (masked by: OPERA-12 |
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> > > > license(s)) |
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> > > > A copy of the 'OPERA-12' license is located at |
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> > > > '/usr/portage/licenses/OPERA-12'. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Is it a matter of adding in /etc/portage/make.conf: |
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> > > > ACCEPT_LICENSE="OPERA-12" |
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> > > > |
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> > > > or am I supposed to go through some other ritual? Either way, |
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> > > > couldn't |
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> > > > the |
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> > > > above message be more informative to do away with any guessing? |
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> > > |
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> > > echo $category/$package $license > /etc/portage/package.license |
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> > > |
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> > > I guess it's not listed explicitly in every ebuild with a non-free |
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> > > license because you are supposed to know how to unmask stuff on your on |
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> > > Gentoo system. |
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> > > |
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> > > The info is in the portage man pages |
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> > |
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> > Ahh! Yes, I had forgotten about that file. Thank you Alan. |
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> > |
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> > I was following http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0023.html and the |
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> > ACCEPT_LICENSE directive in make.conf as a way of managing licenses, but |
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> > then I found an entry about skype in package.license. Hmm ... I wonder |
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> > who put that in there ... :-) |
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> > |
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> > I think this warning confused me because it installed the package and |
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> > *then* it issued a warning about the license. Usually the warning comes |
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> > before, requiring user input before it continues with the installation. |
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> |
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> This warning was added just recently per bug 573050. Both Opera |
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> licenses are clear EULA and thus were added to @EULA license group, |
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> which requires explicit user approval if default ACCEPT_LICENSE is |
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> used. That's why you have not seen the message during opera |
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> installation. For fresh install it will appear unless EULA is |
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> allowed in ACCEPT_LICENSE (I'm not recommending this, since EULA |
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> licenses are not supposed to be implicitly accepted.). |
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> |
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> Best regards, |
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> Andrew Savchenko |
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Thanks Andrew, I just looked at the bug and it makes sense. I don't have |
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@EULA set for the same reason you mention. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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