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From: Theo Chatzimichos <tampakrap@g.o>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: KDE 4.5.4 distfiles missing
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 01:59:47
Message-Id: 201101220358.07373.tampakrap@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-desktop] Re: KDE 4.5.4 distfiles missing by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Saturday 22 January 2011 02:19:07 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > On 01/05/2011 05:10 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 > > On 12/07/2010 09:43 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
4 > >> On 11/29/2010 05:19 PM, Duncan wrote:
5 > >>> Alex Schuster posted on Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:49:36 +0100 as excerpted:
6 > >>>> KDE 4.5.4 is in the kde overlay for some days now. But I cannot emerge
7 > >>>> it because all *-4.5.4.tar.bz2 distfiles are missing on the servers.
8 > >>>>
9 > >>>> Any idea why this is?
10 > >>>
11 > >>> It hasn't actually been released upstream, yet. Normally, the kde team
12 > >>> put a mask in the overlay before they add the new ebuilds in
13 > >>> preparation,
14 > >>> then simply unmask them on the day of release
15 > >>
16 > >> That is actually not what happens most of the time. Usually the user has
17 > >> to mask stuff.
18 > >>
19 > >> In rare cases, the overlay masks the packages properly. About 20% of
20 > >> time, I'd say.
21 > >
22 > > Happened again. The 4.6 RC2 tarballs is not available yet, but it's not
23 > > masked anyway.
24 > >
25 > > It would be awesome if the kde guys could mask the stuff, since it's a
26 > > lot of packages to mask by hand and it totally breaks emerge -u world.
27 >
28 > Same with 4.6 final. Users of 4.6 RC2 will have problems with emerge -u
29 > world.
30 >
31 > The unmask file is gone (I "ln -s" those from the overlay instead of
32 > copying them), so I remade one. If anyone wants it:
33 >
34 > http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=9LdvvmKt
35
36 Added in overlay, thanks
37
38 http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde.git;a=commit;h=75b07d8b2313bf54ebf149d846033f030e71e8e5
39 --
40 Theo Chatzimichos (tampakrap)
41 Gentoo KDE/Qt, Planet, Overlays

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