[gentoo-desktop] Re: KDE 4.5.4 distfiles missing

[Duncan]

Alex Schuster posted on Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:33:02 +0100 as excerpted:

> Duncan writes:
>
>> 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 (or maybe a
>> day later if they forget or if there are last-minute changes that broke
>> something and they're left scrambling), but this time, whether due to
>> policy change or simply overlooking it (it /was/ a long holiday weekend
>> here in the US) I don't know, they didn't.
>
> Thanks, Duncan! Then I'll just wait. I thought maybe I have to add some
> specific mirrors for the kde overlay or something. Now I'll just wait a
> little.
>
>> There's a bug open.  I'm CCed and you can too (I searched on ALL kde
>> 4.5.4 and it was the only one), but if I don't miss my guess, release
>> might be today anyway, in which case it'll be moot.  I'm sort of
>> expecting it today, Monday, but I'd almost certainly expect it by
>> Wednesday.
>
> I do not find anything when I search for 4.5.4. Well, whatever.

Two notes:

1:  According to the bug, they did the masking and marked the bug invalid 
(I'd have chosen fixed, but whatever...), so at your next update it should 
no longer be a problem (it'll either be masked or the new version will be 
out and it'll be unmasked again).

2:  Making bugzilla search work is a challenge.  I never did get the 
detailed search working for me, but the little one-box fast-search down at 
the bottom, where you put in a bug number or search terms, works well 
enough in most cases.

The key to remember is that in almost all cases, you'll want to precede 
your query with the word "ALL" (in all caps).  Without that, you only get 
open bugs, but as a user, you almost always want to be searching for bugs 
that may have been closed, as well.  So it's become a habit for me now, if 
I'm putting in search terms and not a bug number, I always start it with 
ALL<space>, then my search terms.

Normally, you'd then put in a specific package name, but we don't have a 
specific name as it's all kde, so we just use kde.  If possible, use the 
full Gentoo category/name, too, when searching on a specific package.  
Otherwise you'll likely get bugs in other packages only slightly related 
to the package in question.

Then, put in as much of the version number as makes sense.  When it's a 
specific package, that means using the category/package-v.e.r syntax.  The 
reasoning for that is that if a filter forgets to put it in, the bug 
wranglers usually adjust it to that as standard form, so you'll get all 
the hits on that package and version, while eliminating more extraneous 
hits.  But do keep in mind, if you don't /know/ which version the bug 
appeared in, and you try say 4.4.3 and it doesn't turn up, you can hit 
back and relax your query to only 4.4. or even only 4.  Again, use what 
makes sense.

Then put any other search terms likely to be in the title, crash if it is, 
a keyword from the error if it's an emerge failure, etc.  Again, you can 
take them out if you don't get any hits and try again.  Or of course if 
you get too many hits, you can try narrowing it with more keywords.  Be 
sure and think of alternatives as well and try them too.  Many crashes are 
segfaults, for instance, so if crash doesn't work, segfault might.

Regardless, you'll often find yourself looking at a whole long list of 
bugs, say 200, 500, whatever, with no way to practically narrow it further 
without using the detail search which as I said I've never been able to 
get to work as I expect, here.  At this point, the key is to remember that 
the bugs are in numerical order by default, with the numbers assigned 
chronologically.  So you can start with the LAST bug listed, therefore, 
the newest, and search titles going backward, looking for something that 
looks possibly related, until you clearly get back to when they were 
obviously dealing with way earlier versions that didn't have the problem.  
If you haven't found it by then, it's time to declare your search foo too 
bad to find it, if it's there, and file a new bug.

Based on the above general rules, as I said, this query:

ALL kde 4.5.4

returns (still) just one bug, which happens to be the one we're looking 
for.  If you forget the ALL, you'll miss it since the bug is (as I say 
above) already resolved/invalid, and thus won't show unless the query 
starts with that all-important ALL.

Which is I expect what happened when you searched.  You missed (or didn't 
ALL CAPS) that ALL, and the bug was already resolved, so you got the 
infamous zarro boogs found message.

Anyway, now that I've explained all that, since I just tried it again to 
be sure, I might as well include the bug link it returns.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347013

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