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| author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-04-11 23:32:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-04-11 23:32:17 +0000 |
| commit | f4cf7b3da4ffada82b3528f7a93c300a1aaca397 (patch) | |
| tree | 28bbc4df78e1b5b0ce8602e78d7c9f3d1737d603 | |
| parent | 68a1fdbd2d6fc27c23b7241ca41682daec59d058 (diff) | |
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Add some notes for the parallel-fetch feature and the new --complete-graph
option for emerge.
svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=9848
| -rw-r--r-- | RELEASE-NOTES | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/make.conf.5 | 4 |
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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index c107bbce3..4b57835f1 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -32,6 +32,23 @@ portage-2.2 * "world" does no longer include "system" unconditionally, but you can add "@system" to the worldfile to restore the old state. +portage-2.1.5 +================================== + +* The parallel-fetch feature is now enabled by default. It is optimized + to avoid doing redundant checksums for previously downloaded files that have + the correct size. Run `tail -f /var/log/emerge-fetch.log` in a + terminal to view parallel-fetch progress. Add FEATURES="-parallel-fetch" + to /etc/make.conf if you want to disable this feature. + +* For extra careful dependency handling, emerge has a new --complete-graph + option that causes it to consider the deep dependencies of all packages from + the system and world sets. With this option enabled, emerge will bail out + if it determines that the given operation will break any dependencies of + the packages that have been added to the graph. Unlike the --deep option, + the --complete-graph option does not cause any more packages to be updated + than would have otherwise been updated with the option disabled. + portage-2.1.4.1 ================================== diff --git a/man/make.conf.5 b/man/make.conf.5 index d35acf16b..a8476458b 100644 --- a/man/make.conf.5 +++ b/man/make.conf.5 @@ -242,7 +242,9 @@ Prevents the stripping of binaries that are merged to the live filesystem. Disables xterm titlebar updates (which contains status info). .TP .B parallel\-fetch -Fetch in the background while compiling. +Fetch in the background while compiling. Run +`tail \-f /var/log/emerge\-fetch.log` in a +terminal to view parallel-fetch progress. .TP .B sandbox Enable sandbox\-ing when running \fBemerge\fR(1) and \fBebuild\fR(1). |