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authorZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2006-02-21 06:07:31 +0000
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2006-02-21 06:07:31 +0000
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Some news and release notes for 2.1_pre5.
svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=2757
-rw-r--r--NEWS5
-rw-r--r--RELEASE-NOTES2
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7503e007b..559e8415c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -29,3 +29,8 @@ portage-2.1 (ongoing via pre releases)
* Ebuild output is no longer cut off early when using PORT_LOGDIR.
* Distfiles indirection- $DISTFILES access goes through a tmp dir to fail
access to files not listed in SRC_URI.
+* Emerge now uses --resume to restart itself after portage upgrade.
+* Atomic file updates via the new atomic_ofstream class.
+* Global updates and fixpackages performance optimizations.
+* Tests show that file locking is now more reliable.
+* A bash call stack is printed when an ebuild dies in ebuild.sh.
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index f53a6c5aa..c20dfc918 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -13,3 +13,5 @@ portage-2.1
instead.
* 'emerge sync' has been deprecated, use 'emerge --sync' instead (same
for other actions)
+* Tools that call emerge should override the EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS environment
+ variable or use the emerge --ignore-default-opts option.