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author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-12-28 22:01:09 +0000 |
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committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-12-28 22:01:09 +0000 |
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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 47627acd6..d0437c02d 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -4,19 +4,20 @@ Features/major bugfixes are listed in NEWS portage-2.2 ================================== -* Portage now warns if an ebuild repository does not have a name, as several new - features in 2.2 make use of or require named repositories. The repository name - is stored in profiles/repo_name in each repository. -* Package set support: There are several important notes regarding package sets: - - setnames have to be prefixed with @ (exceptions: 'world' and 'system' can be - used without the prefix) - - they may currently only include simple and versioned atoms or other sets, use - conditionals or any-of constructs aren't possible yet - - sets can be referenced either in other file-based sets or as argument to emerge, but - not in ebuilds, config files or other tools at this time. +* Portage now warns if an ebuild repository does not have a name, as several + new features in 2.2 make use of or require named repositories. The repository + name is stored in profiles/repo_name in each repository. +* Package set support: There are several important notes regarding package + sets: + - setnames have to be prefixed with @ (exceptions: 'world' and 'system' can + be used without the prefix) + - they may currently only include simple and versioned atoms or other sets, + use conditionals or any-of constructs aren't possible yet + - sets can be referenced either in other file-based sets or as argument to + emerge, but not in ebuilds, config files or other tools at this time. - packages won't be unmerged if they are referenced by an installed package set (with the exception of the world set, and installed being determined - by the world_sets file). + by the world_sets file). * "world" does no longer include "system" unconditionally, but you can add "@system" to the world_sets file to restore the old state. @@ -26,15 +27,16 @@ portage-2.1.6 * FEATURES=fixpackages is now enabled by default via make.globals. Set FEATURES="-fixpackages" in make.conf if you'd like to disable it. * The python namespace for portage has been sanitized, all portage related code - is now contained within the portage namespace. External script should be updated - accordingly, though links exist for backward compability. + is now contained within the portage namespace. External script should be + updated accordingly, though links exist for backward compability. * -* support in package.keywords was changed as it was inconsistent with - ACCEPT_KEYWORDS behavior (also see http://dev.gentoo.org/~genone/docs/KEYWORDS.stupid). - Previously having -* in package.keywords matched packages with KEYWORDS="-*", + ACCEPT_KEYWORDS behavior (also see + http://dev.gentoo.org/~genone/docs/KEYWORDS.stupid). + Previously having -* in package.keywords matched packages with KEYWORDS="-*", now it resets the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS list for the given atom like it does when 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. + 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. portage-2.1.5 ================================== @@ -47,7 +49,6 @@ portage-2.1.5 earlier phase (such as pkg_preinst) and store the result in a global variable to be accessed by pkg_postinst when it is called. Bug #226505 tracks all issues related to this phase execution order change. - * The metadata-transfer feature is now disabled by default. This disables the "Updating Portage cache" routine that used to run at the tail end of each `emerge --sync` operation. If you use something like the sqlite module and @@ -57,13 +58,11 @@ portage-2.1.5 that override eclasses from PORTDIR (in this case, you may have disabled a relevant warning message by setting PORTAGE_ECLASS_WARNING_ENABLE="0" in make.conf). - * 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 |