On Wednesday 05 January 2011 17:10:53 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> 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.

It is masked, check your /etc/portage/package.unmask

# eix kde-meta
[I] kde-base/kde-meta
     Available versions:  
        (4.4)   4.4.5
        (4.5)   (~)4.5.3{tbz2} (~)4.5.4{tbz2} [M](~)4.5.5[1] **4.5.9999[1]
        (4.6)   [M](~)4.5.90[1] [M](~)4.5.95[1] [M]**4.6.9999[1]
        (live)  **9999{tbz2}[1]
        {accessibility aqua kdeprefix nls sdk semantic-desktop}
     Installed versions:  4.5.4(4.5){tbz2}(01:36:13 PM 12/10/2010)(nls 
semantic-desktop -accessibility -aqua -kdeprefix -sdk)
     Homepage:            http://www.kde.org/
     Description:         KDE - merge this to pull in all split kde-base/* 
packages

[1] "kde" /home/tampakrap/Source_Code/gentoo/kde
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