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On 01/05/2011 05:10 PM, 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 emerge |
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>>>> it because all *-4.5.4.tar.bz2 distfiles are missing on the 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, |
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>>> 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 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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> |
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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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Same with 4.6 final. Users of 4.6 RC2 will have problems with emerge -u |
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world. |
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The unmask file is gone (I "ln -s" those from the overlay instead of |
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copying them), so I remade one. If anyone wants it: |
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http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=9LdvvmKt |
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