Re: KDE 4.5.4 distfiles missing

On 01/05/2011 05:23 PM, Theo Chatzimichos wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 January 2011 17:10:53 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.
>
> It is masked, check your /etc/portage/package.unmask

So is 4.5.90.  What I mean is, we unmasked 4.5.90 using the provided 
unmask file.  However, that file unmasks the 4.6 slot.  So we get 
problems with 4.5.95 which also gets unmasked.