Re: [gentoo-desktop] How to mask KDE 4.6.2?

Marián Kyral <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.desktop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> ------------ Původní zpráva ------------
> Od: Alex Schuster <[email protected]>
> Předmět: [gentoo-desktop] How to mask KDE 4.6.2?
> Datum: 03.4.2011 19:03:59
> ----------------------------------------
> Hi there!
> 
> KDE 4.6.2 ebuilds arrived in the kde overlay, but the distfiles are not on 
> the mirror servers yet. I'm on ~amd64, this stuff is not masked for me. So 
> my world update stops due to missing files.No big problem, but still a 
> little annoying, and I would like to know how one should deal with this.
> 
> I tried to put a link to $LAYMAN/kde/Documentation/package.mask/kde-4.6 in 
> /etc/portage/package.mask, but that of course masks KDE 4.6 completely.
> 
> So I removed the kde overlay. This works, but it would downgrade stuff like 
> amarok-9999 which I am testing. I tried to avoid this by putting <media-
> sound/amarok-9999 into package.mask, but it has no effect. Then I copied 
> media-sound/amarok from the kde overlay into my local overlay, now I can 
> update.
> 
> Is there a better solution? This situation seems to happen with every minor 
> KDE update.
> 
> 	Wonko
> 
> 

Hi,
I'm using the EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--keep-going"
portage option to ignore missing files. This is enough for me.

Marian
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