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From: "Marián Kyral" <mkyral@×××××.cz>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: KDE 4.5.4 distfiles missing
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:35:26
Message-Id: 99865.19043.17010-28528-1520216098-1294241554@email.cz
In Reply to: [gentoo-desktop] Re: KDE 4.5.4 distfiles missing by Nikos Chantziaras
1 > ------------ Pùvodní zpráva ------------
2 > Od: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
3 > Pøedmìt: [gentoo-desktop] Re: KDE 4.5.4 distfiles missing
4 > Datum: 05.1.2011 16:22:02
5 > ----------------------------------------
6 > On 12/07/2010 09:43 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
7 > > On 11/29/2010 05:19 PM, Duncan wrote:
8 > >> Alex Schuster posted on Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:49:36 +0100 as excerpted:
9 > >>
10 > >>> KDE 4.5.4 is in the kde overlay for some days now. But I cannot emerge
11 > >>> it because all *-4.5.4.tar.bz2 distfiles are missing on the servers.
12 > >>>
13 > >>> Any idea why this is?
14 > >>
15 > >> It hasn't actually been released upstream, yet. Normally, the kde team
16 > >> put a mask in the overlay before they add the new ebuilds in preparation,
17 > >> then simply unmask them on the day of release
18 > >
19 > > That is actually not what happens most of the time. Usually the user has
20 > > to mask stuff.
21 > >
22 > > In rare cases, the overlay masks the packages properly. About 20% of
23 > > time, I'd say.
24 >
25 > Happened again. The 4.6 RC2 tarballs is not available yet, but it's not
26 > masked anyway.
27 >
28 > It would be awesome if the kde guys could mask the stuff, since it's a
29 > lot of packages to mask by hand and it totally breaks emerge -u world.
30 >
31 Hi,
32 you should try the "--keep-going" emerge option.
33
34 And then you can make it default by putting line below to /etc/make.conf
35 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--keep-going"
36
37 Regards,
38 Marián

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