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From: Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] kde 3.1 ALPHA unmasked?
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 06:58:56
Message-Id: 200208041444.47413.danarmak@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] kde 3.1 ALPHA unmasked? by Jean-Michel Smith
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4 On Saturday 03 August 2002 21:23, Jean-Michel Smith wrote:
5 > Just a heads up, I guess, and a request to remask...
6 >
7 > I did an emerge this morning (Saturday, August 3, 2002) and discovered that
8 > kde 3.1 alpha has been unmasked (or was committed and never masked). In
9 > any event, I almost upgraded from a stable KDE to a pre-release alpha
10 > vesion by mistake, and had to hand patch the package.mask file to prevent
11 > it.
12 >
13 > kde 3.1 alpha probably should not be unmasked, and the default install
14 > should remain the stable 3.0.2. Is there some reason this wasn't done, or
15 > was it just a mistake?
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17 Actually, I've removed the 3.1_alpha1 ebuilds from portage. I guess you have
18 to emerge rsync --clean to make the disappear. I haven't thought of that.
19 I'll add the mask again.
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22 Dan Armak
23 Gentoo Linux developer (KDE)
24 Matan, Israel
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