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From: "Marcus D. Hanwell" <cryos@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] package.mask cleanups
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:14:38
Message-Id: 200601241610.23560.cryos@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] package.mask cleanups by "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
1 On Tuesday 24 January 2006 15:40, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 24 January 2006 16:23, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
3 > > All of the KDE stuff is the upcoming 3.5.1 release which we are working
4 > > on in p.mask until the official release. There *are* ebuilds for all this
5 > > stuff in the tree right now. So that has chopped the number of entries by
6 > > a fair margin, but for the script to be useful it should be able to
7 > > detect they have valid ebuilds.
8 >
9 > As KDE is way bigger than that is probably listing the packages that are
10 > still at 3.5.0 and didn't get a verbump.
11 > Dan probably did a for pkg in ${PORTDIR}/kde-base/*; do echo
12 > "=kde-base/$pkg-3.5.1*"; done >> ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.mask or a
13 > variation on the theme, that's also why metadata.xml got listed, too.
14 >
15 Hadn't thought of that - a cursory check of a few from the list does indeed
16 show that they have not been bumped. Still I don't think it does any harm
17 having a few extra in p.mask - it is just a temporary mask until the release
18 and it is better to have too many in there than miss one.
19
20 Looks like your script has cut out the false positives quite effectively in
21 this case. They will all be gone once KDE 3.5.1 is released anyway.