Re: KDE 4.5.4 distfiles missing

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.