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| author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2009-01-14 00:43:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2009-01-14 00:43:51 +0000 |
| commit | 328730fc949f699d7c5397bd11ef2d4af59bf754 (patch) | |
| tree | 45a8297cdf66e7c5df0e49a4da685e896e045c14 | |
| parent | e59a3c77fc90a888326b8f3862b7d15a936a29ea (diff) | |
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Bug #254825 - Add a note about the need to use `ebuild --force <ebuild file>
manifest` to update distfiles digests.
svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=12500
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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index b68c02d90..c5a5dc6c2 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ portage-2.1.6 used in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS. For packages that don't specify any other KEYWORDS you can use the new ** token as documented in portage(5) to disable KEYWORDS filtering completely. +* When generating manifests, existing distfiles digests will not be updated + in cases when the current file in $DISTDIR does not match. In order to + force digests to be updated, run `ebuild --force <ebuild file> manifest`. + This is a safety measure which protects valid distfiles digests from being + accidentally replaced by invalid digests. portage-2.1.5 ================================== |