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From: "Marián Kyral" <mkyral@×××××.cz>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] How to mask KDE 4.6.2?
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:03:17
Message-Id: 102453.7946.872-16906-668298370-1301851144@email.cz
In Reply to: [gentoo-desktop] How to mask KDE 4.6.2? by Alex Schuster
1 > ------------ Pùvodní zpráva ------------
2 > Od: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
3 > Pøedmìt: [gentoo-desktop] How to mask KDE 4.6.2?
4 > Datum: 03.4.2011 19:03:59
5 > ----------------------------------------
6 > Hi there!
7 >
8 > KDE 4.6.2 ebuilds arrived in the kde overlay, but the distfiles are not on
9 > the mirror servers yet. I'm on ~amd64, this stuff is not masked for me. So
10 > my world update stops due to missing files.No big problem, but still a
11 > little annoying, and I would like to know how one should deal with this.
12 >
13 > I tried to put a link to $LAYMAN/kde/Documentation/package.mask/kde-4.6 in
14 > /etc/portage/package.mask, but that of course masks KDE 4.6 completely.
15 >
16 > So I removed the kde overlay. This works, but it would downgrade stuff like
17 > amarok-9999 which I am testing. I tried to avoid this by putting <media-
18 > sound/amarok-9999 into package.mask, but it has no effect. Then I copied
19 > media-sound/amarok from the kde overlay into my local overlay, now I can
20 > update.
21 >
22 > Is there a better solution? This situation seems to happen with every minor
23 > KDE update.
24 >
25 > Wonko
26 >
27 >
28
29 Hi,
30 I'm using the EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--keep-going"
31 portage option to ignore missing files. This is enough for me.
32
33 Marian

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Re: [gentoo-desktop] How to mask KDE 4.6.2? Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>