Re: [gentoo-amd64] mirror sync times

[Tony Johnson <tony@tosp.net.au>]

On Saturday 26 November 2005 15:26, Florian D. wrote:
> Tony Johnson wrote:
> > On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 13:36, Kyle Lutze wrote:
> >>Tony Johnson wrote:
> >>>On Saturday 26 November 2005 07:55, Mike Williams wrote:
> >>>>On Friday 25 November 2005 20:42, Tony Johnson wrote:
> >>>>>Does it normally take so long for the mirrors to sync? or am i doing
> >>>>>something strange here?
> >>>>
> >>>>kde-3.5.0 hasn't actually been release yet, it has mearly been tagged
> >>>> in KDEs SVN repository.
> >>>>The ebuilds are a bit early.
> >>>>
> >>>:) Thanks...
> >>>
> >>>Is there a way to tell emerge not to check this so it doesn't stop the
> >>>rest of "emerge world"?
> >>>
> >>>- tony
> >>
> >>you could do an emerge --resume --skipfirst
> >
> > Already tried that one... it just aborts on the next kde 3.5.0 package it
> > can't find... there's about 60 or so it wants to update.
> >
> > - tony
>
> you could list these packages in /etc/portage/package.mask

:) That fix works except that i had to change all the relevent kde-base lines 
in my /etc/portage/packages.unmask from the form:

	>=kde-base/<whatever>-3.5_rc1

to:

	=kde-base/<whatever>-3.5_rc1

Then I realised that i could do without the /etc/portage/package.mask that you 
suggested anyway.

Thank you for pointing the way.

BTW, I am a gentoo (amd64) newbie for about 6 weeks and IMHO gentoo is the 
best desktop distro I have ever played with... except for the usual gripes 
many ppl have about various minor 32bit compatability issues.

- tony

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