Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: KDE 4.5.4 distfiles missing

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 01/05/2011 05:32 PM, Marián Kyral wrote:
>> ------------ Pùvodní zpráva ------------
>> Od: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
>> Pøedmìt: [gentoo-desktop] Re: KDE 4.5.4 distfiles missing
>> Datum: 05.1.2011 16:22:02
>> ----------------------------------------
>> On 12/07/2010 09:43 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> > On 11/29/2010 05:19 PM, Duncan wrote:
>> >> Alex Schuster posted on Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:49:36 +0100 as excerpted:
>> >>
>> >>> KDE 4.5.4 is in the kde overlay for some days now. But I cannot
>> emerge
>> >>> it because all *-4.5.4.tar.bz2 distfiles are missing on the servers.
>> >>>
>> >>> Any idea why this is?
>> >>
>> >> It hasn't actually been released upstream, yet. Normally, the kde team
>> >> put a mask in the overlay before they add the new ebuilds in
>> preparation,
>> >> then simply unmask them on the day of release
>> >
>> > That is actually not what happens most of the time. Usually the user
>> has
>> > to mask stuff.
>> >
>> > In rare cases, the overlay masks the packages properly. About 20% of
>> > time, I'd say.
>>
>> Happened again. The 4.6 RC2 tarballs is not available yet, but it's
>> not masked anyway.
>>
>> It would be awesome if the kde guys could mask the stuff, since it's a
>> lot of packages to mask by hand and it totally breaks emerge -u world.
>>
> Hi,
> you should try the "--keep-going" emerge option.
>
> And then you can make it default by putting line below to /etc/make.conf
> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--keep-going"

No that's too messy.  You have to watch for packages that don't have 
tarballs, like kde-env which will break KDE if installed.

I created a custom unmask file to solve the issue.  But it would be 
better if there was a 4.5.90-specific unmask file to begin with.

In the end, it's not a very big deal.  Just a major annoyance :-)