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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 emerge |
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>>> it because all *-4.5.4.tar.bz2 distfiles are missing on the servers. |
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>>> Any idea why this is? |
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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 preparation, |
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>> then simply unmask them on the day of release |
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> That is actually not what happens most of the time. Usually the user has |
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> to mask stuff. |
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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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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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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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