Re: Re: KDE 4.5.4 distfiles missing

On Wednesday 05 January 2011 18:10:35 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> 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.

I added a 4.5.90 specific unmask file, you can use that instead, enjoy
-- 
Theo Chatzimichos (tampakrap)
Gentoo KDE/Qt, Planet, Overlays

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