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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-desktop] Re: KDE 4.5.4 distfiles missing
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:12:40
Message-Id: ig255q$mvr$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: KDE 4.5.4 distfiles missing by Theo Chatzimichos
1 On 01/05/2011 05:23 PM, Theo Chatzimichos wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 05 January 2011 17:10:53 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, then simply unmask them on the day of release
14 >>>
15 >>> That is actually not what happens most of the time. Usually the user has
16 >>> to mask stuff.
17 >>>
18 >>> In rare cases, the overlay masks the packages properly. About 20% of
19 >>> time, I'd say.
20 >>
21 >> Happened again. The 4.6 RC2 tarballs is not available yet, but it's not
22 >> masked anyway.
23 >>
24 >> It would be awesome if the kde guys could mask the stuff, since it's a
25 >> lot of packages to mask by hand and it totally breaks emerge -u world.
26 >
27 > It is masked, check your /etc/portage/package.unmask
28
29 So is 4.5.90. What I mean is, we unmasked 4.5.90 using the provided
30 unmask file. However, that file unmasks the 4.6 slot. So we get
31 problems with 4.5.95 which also gets unmasked.

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Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: KDE 4.5.4 distfiles missing Theo Chatzimichos <tampakrap@g.o>