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authorZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2008-05-14 18:56:22 +0000
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2008-05-14 18:56:22 +0000
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Add a note about interaction between FEATURES="metadata-transfer"
and eclasses from PORTDIR_OVERLAY that override eclasses from PORTDIR. svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=10337
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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
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@@ -47,7 +47,11 @@ portage-2.1.5
"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
want to keep all metadata in that format alone (useful for querying), enable
- FEATURES="metadata-transfer" in make.conf.
+ FEATURES="metadata-transfer" in make.conf. You should also enable
+ FEATURES="metadata-transfer" if you have any eclasses from PORTDIR_OVERLAY
+ 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