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On Wednesday 05 January 2011 18:10:35 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> On 01/05/2011 05:23 PM, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: |
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> > On Wednesday 05 January 2011 17:10:53 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> >> On 12/07/2010 09:43 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> >>> On 11/29/2010 05:19 PM, Duncan wrote: |
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> >>>> Alex Schuster posted on Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:49:36 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> >>>>> KDE 4.5.4 is in the kde overlay for some days now. But I cannot |
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> >>>>> emerge it because all *-4.5.4.tar.bz2 distfiles are missing on the |
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> >>>>> servers. |
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> >>>>> |
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> >>>>> Any idea why this is? |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> It hasn't actually been released upstream, yet. Normally, the kde team |
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> >>>> put a mask in the overlay before they add the new ebuilds in |
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> >>>> preparation, then simply unmask them on the day of release |
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> >>> |
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> >>> That is actually not what happens most of the time. Usually the user |
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> >>> has to mask stuff. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> In rare cases, the overlay masks the packages properly. About 20% of |
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> >>> time, I'd say. |
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> >> |
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> >> Happened again. The 4.6 RC2 tarballs is not available yet, but it's not |
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> >> masked anyway. |
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> >> |
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> >> It would be awesome if the kde guys could mask the stuff, since it's a |
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> >> lot of packages to mask by hand and it totally breaks emerge -u world. |
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> > |
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> > It is masked, check your /etc/portage/package.unmask |
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> |
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> So is 4.5.90. What I mean is, we unmasked 4.5.90 using the provided |
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> unmask file. However, that file unmasks the 4.6 slot. So we get |
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> problems with 4.5.95 which also gets unmasked. |
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I added a 4.5.90 specific unmask file, you can use that instead, enjoy |
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Theo Chatzimichos (tampakrap) |
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Gentoo KDE/Qt, Planet, Overlays |
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