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From: "Luis F. Araujo" <araujo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Around 425 non-existent packages in p.mask?
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 03:47:27
Message-Id: 4383E5B3.8020409@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Around 425 non-existent packages in p.mask? by "Marcus D. Hanwell"
1 Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
2
3 >On Wednesday 23 November 2005 02:18, Luis F. Araujo wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >>Hello everyone,
7 >>
8 >>A few days ago i glanced over package.mask , and i was surprised
9 >>about how many non-existent ebuild/packages entries are there.
10 >>
11 >>So, i wrote a script to try to get a list of those orphaned entries,
12 >>and it looks like there are more than 400 packages/ebuilds which are still
13 >>listed in p.m but that don't exist in the tree anymore.
14 >>(A bunch of them from the KDE herd btw)
15 >>
16 >>
17 >>
18 >I am not seeing the packages for the KDE herd - are you accounting for >=? KDE
19 >3.5 packages are just coming out of rcs, and alpha was long since removed but
20 >
21 >
22 >>=alpha1 is package.masked - I am also using this for digikam packages.
23 >>
24
25 Yes. The script only checks for non-existent ebuilds.
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