Bug 293796

Summary:	unclear error message when emerging app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-3.0.12
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Thomas Capricelli <orzel>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	VERIFIED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	SebastianLuther
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Thomas Capricelli 2009-11-20 04:17:34 UTC

the emerge fails with
"Could not find requested license /usr/portage/licenses/PUEL"

But does not say what we should do. I've googled and found nothing. I've asked on IRC, and someone told me to add this line to my make.conf:
ACCEPT_LICENSE="PUEL"
and so i did. But this does not solve the problem.

Sure, i can remove the line from the ebuild and 'ebuild.. digest' and install again. But this is rather frustrating.

I understand there's some issue with how to make the user accept the license, but now i'm stuck, and the ebuild message is of no help to me.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
A message or a link to some webpage explaining what we should do to have virtualbox-bin installed.

Comment 1 Sebastian Luther (few) 2009-11-21 09:12:47 UTC

You shouldn't see this message. Does /usr/portage/licenses/PUEL exist? If not does it exist after the next emerge --sync?

Comment 2 Thomas Capricelli 2009-11-22 19:10:10 UTC

the pb was different : though i did not remember it, i was excluding /usr/portage/licenses from my sync (it's big and i dont care about mirroring the content on my hard disk, /usr/portage is sooo bloated).

I've removed this exclude, and now it works. Thanks for caring!