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List:       gentoo-desktop
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: KDE 4.5.4 distfiles missing
From:       Theo Chatzimichos <tampakrap () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2011-01-22 1:58:03
Message-ID: 201101220358.07373.tampakrap () gentoo ! org
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On Saturday 22 January 2011 02:19:07 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 01/05/2011 05:10 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > On 12/07/2010 09:43 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> On 11/29/2010 05:19 PM, Duncan wrote:
> >>> Alex Schuster posted on Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:49:36 +0100 as excerpted:
> >>>> KDE 4.5.4 is in the kde overlay for some days now. But I cannot emerge
> >>>> it because all *-4.5.4.tar.bz2 distfiles are missing on the servers.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Any idea why this is?
> >>> 
> >>> It hasn't actually been released upstream, yet. Normally, the kde team
> >>> put a mask in the overlay before they add the new ebuilds in
> >>> preparation,
> >>> then simply unmask them on the day of release
> >> 
> >> That is actually not what happens most of the time. Usually the user has
> >> to mask stuff.
> >> 
> >> In rare cases, the overlay masks the packages properly. About 20% of
> >> time, I'd say.
> > 
> > Happened again. The 4.6 RC2 tarballs is not available yet, but it's not
> > masked anyway.
> > 
> > It would be awesome if the kde guys could mask the stuff, since it's a
> > lot of packages to mask by hand and it totally breaks emerge -u world.
> 
> Same with 4.6 final.  Users of 4.6 RC2 will have problems with emerge -u
> world.
> 
> The unmask file is gone (I "ln -s" those from the overlay instead of
> copying them), so I remade one.  If anyone wants it:
> 
> http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=9LdvvmKt

Added in overlay, thanks

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde.git;a=commit;h=75b07d8b2313bf54ebf149d846033f030e71e8e5
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Theo Chatzimichos (tampakrap)
Gentoo KDE/Qt, Planet, Overlays

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