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+# ChangeLog for Portage; the Gentoo Linux ports system 
+# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
+# $Id: ChangeLog.000,v 1.3 2004/10/04 13:58:57 vapier Exp $
+
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+
+  21 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: TGL's fixes
+  for exec/child/wait problems. Unset GREP_OPTIONS GREP_COLOR. has() and use()
+  no longer attempt to determine if they are to be quiet or noisy -- They
+  default to noisy -- useq() and hasq() are the non-verbose versions.
+  EBUILD_PHASE set to add a hack-ish way around global scope calls in
+  eclasses -- NOTHING SHOULD BE CALLED IN THE GLOBAL SCOPE. Touchup to the
+  inherit() code that should finally allow the removal of the ECLASS and
+  INHERITED settings. Removed tty (use/has) calls. Removed dirname calls --
+  portage.py handles setting the dbkey filename now.
+  
+  21 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Ed Catmur's
+  (with a  little TGL added in) patch for --ask. Added a 'metadata' target
+  that skips the sync and only updates the cache. FEATURES="getbinpkg" added.
+  TGL's exit code fixes. Fixed match code for -S so it doesn't complain about
+  specific and double versions. Unmerge via dbpath fix. Rewrote rsync's
+  options that supports --verbose and --quiet operation now and can force
+  checksumming all files using --debug. Sort the files in the cache update
+  so it's a little more predictable. 
+
+  21 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> prepstrip: changed 
+  --strip-debug to --strip-unneeded.
+
+  21 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> getbinpkg.py: Updates to
+  enable HTTP/HTTPS authentication.
+
+  21 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: best_from_dict
+  added to grab the best entry from set of dicts using a list of the keys for
+  priority. jstubb's patch to fix listdir -- splits it into a cache and list
+  setup. jstubb's patch for varexpand to handle $VAR better. Latexer's patch
+  for KernelVersion code to use Makefiles instead of the version.h. Modules
+  are loaded from /etc/portage/modules or defaults, whichever works. Fixed
+  the /etc/make.profile-is-missing traceback. Spawn can be given 3 pipes to
+  redirect stdin,stdout,stderr to specific outputs, terminals, or files.
+  TGL's patch for cache functions in portage.py so that they do not cache at
+  inappropriate times. PORTAGE_TMPFS is now used if set as a temporary file
+  operation area -- recommended to actually be a ramfs/tmpfs filesystem for
+  speed. Genone enhanced the deprecated profile patch.
+
+  31 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> emerge: Fixed --skipfirst
+  bug. This closes #36880.
+
+  29 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> emerge: TGL's patch
+  for imporving overlay verbose. This closes #39765.
+
+  27 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixed
+  autouse bug. autouse were ignored.
+
+  21 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Output failed
+  cache updates during emerge sync.
+
+  21 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: VDB_PATH fixes.
+
+  21 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Only use
+  custom profiles when not called by repoman. ROOT never changes profile
+  roots, only custom/system profiles var/cache/edb/virtuals. Sandbox fix
+  where sandbox was creating an invalid logfile (not giving a summary)
+  due to a '/' in SANDBOX_LOG. Turned down the Lockfile output. Double
+  check the INCOMPLETE MERGE identifications as it can be caused by cache.
+
+  24 Jan 2004; <nakano@gentoo.org> emerge: Improved timestamp check 
+  when 'emerge sync'. Added catching amiguous error when unmerge.
+  This closes #24325.
+
+  23 Jan 2004; <nakano@gentoo.org> emerge, portage.py: Fixed 2 bugs. 
+  Portage doesn't read local virtuals file, which happens on only cvs
+  version. package is blocked by itself.
+
+  21 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge:
+  Fix from genone for emerge's direct reading of packages and his patch
+  that also adds in /etc/portage/profile as a stacked profile.
+
+  21 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Completed
+  inheritence capabilities for portage.config reading some files. Moved a
+  copy of the getvirtuals() function into settings to handle multiple
+  profiles properly.
+
+*portage-2.0.50_pre17/18/19 (21 Jan 2004): Modules for DBs and quick fixes
+
+  21 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: Moved all references
+  to var/db/pkg to portage.VDB_PATH --- This will change again -- NEED TO
+  BE MOVED INTO A PATH/CONSTANTS SETUP.
+
+  21 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> dosed: Quick fix for
+  the basename missing/misplaced issue.
+
+  21 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Added
+  /dev/console to PREDICT to attempt a workaround for a serial console
+  bug. dbkey is now set through portage.py/doebuild to allow for modular
+  db code.
+
+  21 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: regen doesn't
+  require root anymore. Edited the timestamp check to be a little more
+  friendly -- delete the portdir timestamp and it won't use the alternate.
+  Fix some permission settings. Added some warnings in for cachedirs that
+  are very likely to ruin your system. Cleaned out some of the eclass code
+  that isnt valid any longer.
+
+  21 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portageq: Added vdb_path
+  as a target to get the db directory. Quickpkg uses this.
+
+  21 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added
+  load_mod() -- grabs a class/function from a module and passes it back
+  without loading the module into the global scope. Added unique_array()
+  which eliminates duplicates from an array. grab_stacked() operates like
+  the other grab* and getconfig functions, but takes a filename and a set
+  of paths that it will apply incrementally or clobbers -- for profile
+  inheritance. getconfig no longer exits on non-existance returns None.
+  Class config now should be passed a profile path and a set of incremental
+  values instead of using the globals -- defaults to using the globals
+  presently and print an error message. Adding support for module configs
+  as a set of strings 'class.subclass.objectmodule':'module.to.use.object'
+  for load_mod and the database modules. Profile inheritance started. Killed
+  the eclass() super-function and replaced it with class eclass_cache that
+  is visible and conceptually simpler -- Also uses the plugable modules.
+  Cleaned out the sync calls for the DBs. MASSIVE simplification of the
+  aux_get code -- removed memory-caching in favor of system cache (actually
+  faster in all cases so far -- P100 and P4-2.2G). Lockfile usage around the
+  cachefile.
+  
+  21 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage_db_*: Updated
+  the API a little but to have permissions set properly. A little more
+  reorganization and removed the keycount checks.
+
+  21 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> emerge: download size 
+  should not be displayed when the package is nomerge with --tree.
+
+  20 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> portage.py: Reverted
+  ambiguity package fix in cpv_expand().
+
+  20 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> emerge: Moved
+  backup timestamp.chk file from portage tree to PORTAGE_TMPDIR.
+
+  20 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> emerge: Reverted the 
+  backing up the timestamp.chk fix.
+
+  20 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> emerge: Improved the
+  list of --tree by TGL's patch. This should close #38070.
+
+  20 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> emerge: Removed debug
+  message without --debug. This should close #23840.
+
+  19 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> emerge: Improved
+  timestamp check of rsync. This should close #37403.
+
+  19 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> portage.py: Improved
+  regeneration ld.so.cache. This should close #37858.
+
+  19 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> emerge: Fixed bug which
+  emerge doesn't block same package but different version.
+  (example: DEPEND="!<cat/pkg-1.0.0" in cat/pkg-1.0.0.ebuild)
+
+  19 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  Modified cpv_expand() to check package.mask. This should close #38592.
+
+  19 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> portage.py: Escaped
+  regualar expression for replace entry in fixdbentries().
+
+  18 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  Fixed AUTOCLEAN delay problem in .50pre* by TGL's patch. This close 
+  #38189. Fixed unmerge failture bug when 'ebuild foo-1.0.0 unmerge'.
+  These close #38189, #38366
+
+  18 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> emerge, portage.py:
+  Fixed "ebuild /foo/bar-1.0.0.ebuild unmerge" and "emerge bar-1.0.0 unmerge" 
+  problems. This should close #38420.
+
+  17 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixed
+  "!<=" style block problem. Fixed symlink with absolute path 
+  problem in treewalk().
+
+*portage-2.0.50_pre16 (13 Jan 2004): Quick Fixes -- ~arch version
+
+  13 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Removed an
+  unnecessary depend call that double eclass-using ebuild's cache regen
+  time.
+
+*portage-2.0.50_pre15 (12 Jan 2004): Quick Fixes -- ~arch version
+
+  12 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Unmerge
+  traceback fix.
+
+*portage-2.0.50_pre14 (12 Jan 2004): Quick Fixes -- ~arch version
+
+  12 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Fix for
+  traceback on '-S'.
+
+  12 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Fix for
+  traceback on --help.
+
+  12 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> sandbox: Fix for
+  sandboxpids.tmp file accesses.
+
+  12 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Sandbox, as
+  above. Catch invalid package names and print a sane message about it.
+
+*portage-2.0.50_pre13 (11 Jan 2004): Fixes
+
+  11 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> cnf/*: Updated the
+  Advanced masking section to aid the reduction of user complaints and
+  requests for unreasable usage of ACCEPT_KEYWORDS.
+  
+  11 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: A counter
+  fix was fixed to actually check the counters of all CP versions to ensure
+  the new counter is higher than all existing ones. Modified the dblink
+  class to have class lockfiles for the db and tmpdb dirs as well as lock
+  other files before editing. Reorganization of the merge code in dblink
+  so that the tmpdb is filled immediately after preinst and prior to the
+  actual FS merging -- COUNTER and CONTENTS go directly into the tmpdb
+  and not into the infodir.
+  
+*portage-2.0.50_pre11/12 (09 Dec 2003): repoman/binpkg/exit conditions
+
+  09 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: getbinpkgonly
+  fixes for emerge -G world, should behave properly now instead of using
+  ebuild masks. Only downloads immediately before a merge -- fetchonly now
+  applies to binary packages.
+
+  08 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> repoman: Ignore other 
+  arches check in repoman when --ignore-other-arches(-I).
+
+*portage-2.0.50_pre10 (06 Dec 2003): API change + enhancements
+
+  06 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Fix for
+  dyn_preinst being called before IMAGE was set -- IMAGE is now valid
+  in pkg_preinst. Added suidctl for SELinux.
+
+  06 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Added -P to
+  initial cvs checkout.
+
+  06 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> quickpkg: Fix for
+  the 'tar up /' problem.
+
+  06 Jan 2004; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Caught a
+  traceback generated by bad depend atoms for repoman. Fixes from genone
+  for package.*. Fixed the checks for doebuild calls in treewalk that was
+  ignoring exit conditions for ebuilds.
+
+  04 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> repoman: Added PDEPEND
+  dependency check. This closes #24796
+
+  04 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> repoman, portage.py:
+  Added new dependency check to repoman. This closes #36887.
+
+  03 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> emerge: Modified 
+  to specific port number in emerge sync. This closes #36994
+
+  02 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixed 
+  a problem that emerge doesn't block package when it's required.
+  It happens in .50_pre*.
+
+  02 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixed 
+  issue with getsize() when --debug.
+
+  02 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixed 
+  issue with virtual. This closes bug #9050, #22225, #29499.
+
+  01 Jan 2004; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> ebuild, emerge, portage.py:
+  Fixed issue with not cleaning up temp directory. This closes bug #34967.
+
+  31 Dec 2003; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> emerge:
+  Fixed 'emerge sync' issue which continuously connects to same host.
+
+  31 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Found the line
+  that was causing the package dir to be printed... It was a spawn call.
+
+  31 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fix for
+  the symlink corruption in the db from the movefile() bug.
+
+  29 Dec 2003; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  Fixed bug which emerge stops when no denpendencies exist in || ( ) 
+  by USE flags. This closes #36568.
+
+  29 Dec 2003; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> emerge, portage.py:
+  Added an ambiguity package check when emerge. This closes bug #22700.
+
+*portage-2.0.50_pre9 (24 Dec 2003): API change + enhancements
+
+  24 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Added
+  PORTAGE_TMPDIR to SANDBOX_READ/WRITE to ensure it works. SpanKY's
+  patch for use negation added (use !foo). pkg_setup doesn't die on
+  a non-zero exit status.
+
+  24 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: using os.uname
+  instead of calling out to uname.
+
+  24 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> quickpkg: Added SpanKY's
+  patch for delayed exit/error conditions.
+  
+  24 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> xpak.py: chdir's added
+  to the getcwd fix for missing dirs.
+
+  24 Dec 2003; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> emerge: Added OVERLAY
+  directories display for --verbose.
+
+*portage-2.0.50_pre8 (24 Dec 2003): API change + enhancements
+
+  22 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Added
+  /proc/self/maps to SANDBOX_PREDICT, and /dev/shm to read/write.
+  
+  22 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Added automake
+  and autoconf versions to the output of emerge info.
+
+  22 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> etc-update: Added
+  edit merged file option -- defaults to EDITOR var or "nano -w".
+
+  22 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Use
+  os.uname instead of calling out to uname which might not exist.
+
+*portage-2.0.50_pre7 (22 Dec 2003): API change + enhancements
+
+  22 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: patch to
+  quote most of the path operators that might involve spaces.
+
+  22 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fix for
+  invalid entries in package.keywords. Character chopping on mirrors
+  fixed again.
+
+  21 Dec 2003; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> bin/ebuild, bin/emerge,
+  pym/portage.py: Changed to show disabled USE flags from use.mask when
+  using emerge -vp. And fixed use.mask issue.
+
+  20 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Rewrote
+  match_from_list -- Simplified and made pkgcmp and match_from_list
+  properly compare package names.
+
+  20 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Fix for mysigs
+  traceback when signing.
+  
+  20 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added
+  PYTHONPATH to the specials list -- created a colon_seperated list.
+  Fixed reset() in class config so that you can specify keeping the
+  pkg dictionary when resetting the values.
+
+  19 Dec 2003; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> repoman: Added check 
+  whether "ebuild foo.ebuild digest" succeeds.
+
+  19 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fix for
+  pkg settings being maintained after an unmerge.
+
+  19 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> pym/portage_db_*: Moved
+  to using cPickle instead of marshal. More standardization of the API.
+
+  18 Dec 2003; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> repoman: Added virtual
+  dependency check on each arch.
+
+  17 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixed a
+  permission issue involving $T and userpriv. Lockfile touchup.
+  
+  17  Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage_db_*: Added
+  templates and db for cache interfaces. Presently have a anydbm and a
+  flat file interface working. See the test for operations.
+
+  15 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Added a call
+  to portageq that causes python to create optimized modules prior to it
+  ending up inside the sandbox. Added more output and logging to sync.
+  
+  15 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> prepstrip: 'tree' is not
+  the same as 'true'.
+  
+  15 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: invalid
+  settings in package.keywords caused a traceback -- fixed with error message.
+  
+*portage-2.0.50_pre1 (12 Dec 2003): API change + enhancements
+
+  10 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> chkcontents: Uses portage
+  functions to do md5sum calcs.
+
+  10 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Removed try()
+  as it isn't used, and was deprecated for a long while. Genone's fetching
+  size display added for --verbose. License display added. Added a little
+  debug for IUSE so we can figure out the binary package --verbose IUSE
+  issues that are randomly reported. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX's 'buildsyspkg'
+  patch for building only system packages into tbz2s. Unmerge fix for new
+  settings instances. RSYNC_RATELIMIT added.
+  
+  10 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: ADA path
+  variables added to specials for env_update. Error messaeg correction for
+  make.defaults syntax errors. Unmerge now uses the environment file, if it
+  exists, to get the complete environment back to perform unmerge operations.
+  load_infodir() uses pkg settings completely now. Fixed the passing of
+  settings in unmerge and dblink. Fixed an issue regarding unlinking lockfiles
+  while inside of a sandbox.
+  
+  09 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh, *.sh:
+  Moved helper scripts into bin/functions and made them sourceable -- they
+  now will die in cases where sub-parts fail. dodoc and keepdir are now
+  recursive-capable.
+
+  09 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: emerge.log now
+  set as portage:portage with 0660 perms. --debug now enables tracebacks
+  for dep generation instead of moving code out of the try block.
+  
+  09 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> g-cpan.pl: rac's patch
+  to get arch list from portage's list of arches in the profiles.
+  
+  09 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Moved a bit of
+  the existing gpg code around -- it might work as is, but requires 'sign'
+  in features. Fixed a potential for repoman to miss updates that should
+  get a new manifest and commit. Fixed digest/manifest generation for
+  non-packagedir runs of repoman.
+  
+  09 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emergehelp.py, make.conf,
+  getbinpkg.py:  Message touch ups.
+  
+  09 Dec 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: load_infodir()
+  uses pkg settings now instead of env and backup. Genone's custom mirror
+  patch included. Added some missing 'strict' flags for recursion in digest*().
+  Refixed the invalidentry stuff that was lost across patch merges. Fix for
+  pkg-keywords from genone included. Genone's deprecated profile patch for
+  reporting to a user that their current profile is deprecated. Message about
+  missing arch.list instead of spouting invalid keywords messages.
+
+  08 Dec 2003; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> repoman:
+  Added all arch dependency check. This closes bug #24160.
+
+  07 Dec 2003; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> emerge,portage.py:
+  Fixed bugs. 1.--debug doesn't work 2.Portage breaks files
+  in /var/db/*/*. 3.No stop if dependency problem happens.
+  They are only cvs version problems.
+
+  01 Dec 2003; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> emerge: Fixed bug which 
+  always remakes info dir file.
+
+  29 Nov 2003; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixed issue with
+  ebuild name rule. Fixed typo with variable name.
+  This closes bug #17172,#34666
+
+  29 Nov 2003; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> emerge: Fixed issue with 
+  lacking the "setting" argument for pkgmerge()
+
+  29 Nov 2003; Masatomo Nakano <nakano@gentoo.org> emerge: fixed rsync bug.
+  This closes bug #34660.
+
+  28 Nov 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Migration
+  to non-global settings started -- class config has new functionality and
+  is locked after portage is finished initializing -- changes cannot be made
+  to the global instance of config 'settings' -- reset() is now functional,
+  setcpv() loads PKGUSE from /etc/portage/package.use, load_infodir() loads
+  all small files (under 4k) from the vardb directory of an installed package
+  so that operations have the same post* settings as they had at merge time.
+  Begin modifications to spawn() to allow for files/pipes to be used for
+  IO instead of using getstatusoutput which does not take an environment
+  parameter like execve(). check_config_instance() ensures that the provided
+  parameter is a 'class config' instance -- for ensuring that everything is
+  being passed properly with the changes. Fix for the local FS mirror issue
+  where it removed the first '/' instead of the last one. doebuild() cleanups
+  for readability and pkguse enhancements -- also remove getstatusoutput()
+  usage for depend so that we don't have to modify the active environment.
+  Fix for symlink mtime values returned from movefile. (Nakano) SLOTMOVE
+  added to global update functionality to fix some issues where a package
+  suddenly must become slotted. portdbapi takes a root parameter instead
+  of using settings. Slightly more useful output from depend. binarytree()
+  now takes a pkgdir instead of using settings. Portage will now die if
+  ebuild.sh exits on a signal.
+  
+  Moved some functions around and renamed them for general use -- derived
+  from match2 in class portagetree:
+  match_to_list() find all atoms in a list that match a given package.
+  best_match_to_list() determines the most specific match. Needs work.
+  match_from_list() find all packages in a list that match a given atom.
+
+  28 Nov 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Fixed an issue
+  with searchdesc wanting root permissions if run as non-root. Migrated to
+  the non-global config class. EMERGE_FROM added for the dyn_preinst patch
+  -- Indicates if a merge is occuring from an ebuild or from a binary. Patch
+  for rsync timestamp checking from Nakano.
+  
+  28 Nov 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Save PKGUSE.
+  Pebeneto's patch for dyn_preinst and SELinux added as a fix for binary
+  and ebuild merges. Added a kill for portage during the depend phase so
+  that portage will actually die if you control-C.
+
+  28 Nov 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: MASSIVE set of changes
+  to start using locally defined 'class config' instances. This allows us to
+  start working on some parallelism among other things. Created this way:
+  mysettings = portage.config(clone=portage.settings)
+  
+  The Following functions now take a 'config' parameter:
+  spawn(), fetch(), digestgen(), digestcheck(), spawnebuild(), doebuild(),
+  merge(), dep_opconvert(), dep_check(), dblink.__init__()
+  
+  package.keywords is now implemented curtasy of genone/max. PKGUSE was
+  rewritten for the global config killing and is also included. X11 man
+  pages now found and zipped correctly. SYS.PATH fixes for the python
+  migration -- issue actually only shows up on 2.2 systems because of how
+  compiled modules are used if found regardless of the original source's
+  existance.
+
+  28 Nov 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> tabcheck.py: An easier
+  way to make sure that all the python stuff is correctly using tabs and
+  not mixing spaces.
+
+  28 Nov 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> xpak, xpak.py: Fixes
+  to ensure that it works if the current dir is missing and that the python
+  path gets set properly.
+  
+  22 Nov 2003; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixed
+  calls in vartree method to invalidentry().... made them call call
+  self.dbapi.invalidentry() (there were multiple wrong method calls.)
+  
+  10 Nov 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> md5check.py: Checks all
+  digests and SRC_URIs for filenames and associated MD5s. Reports collisions
+  between versions/packages, missing, and extra lines in digests.
+
+*portage-2.0.49-r17/18 (10 Nov 2003): Fixes
+
+  10 Nov 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: Changed portage to
+  be the first path in sys.path for all python scripts. Also enabled
+  optimizations from the scripts to ensure everything imported is built
+  for speed. ebuild: applied fix for the '//' root breaking the db[].
+  prepstrip: etdyn quickfix
+  
+  10 Nov 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: fix for
+  RESTRICT=nouserpriv. GENTOO_MIRRORS can have paths set to take files
+  from. Fixes for mishandled cache data regarding *pkgsplit(). Fixes for
+  '*' being returned as part of a package split. An 'invalidentry()' fix
+  for a traceback. Nakano's fixes for virtual removals not working properly,
+  sandbox violations during pkg_nofetch, || depend selection. Genone's
+  fixpackages speedup.
+
+  10 Nov 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: PORTAGE_TMPDIR
+  fix for distcc. Variable passing bug patch for export_functions. Exit 1
+  added for nofetch to stop sandbox violation. Nakano's --tree patch added.
+  Improved the unmerge messages to denote what kind of unmerge fails. Info
+  pages regex pattern adjusted to allow most any name for a page.
+
+  10 Nov 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: genone's xml
+  linting additions.
+
+  01 Nov 2003; Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> pym/cvstree.py:
+  fix bug #32071, by properly escaping a string to not be a regex. Checked
+  thru entire *.py tree and found this is the only mis-use of strings that
+  need to be escaped.
+
+  31 Oct 2003; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: /lib/modules
+  now gets "unmerge protection." This is half of the config protection
+  functionality. It means that anything in /lib/modules will not be deleted
+  when a package is unmerged (often automatically when a user merges a
+  kernel module ebuild for a new kernel.) This solves the "my module
+  disappeared!" issue. This closes bug #1477.
+  
+  31 Oct 2003; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: Should no longer
+  spit out wacky "!!! no match found" warnings when auto-cleaning.
+  
+  30 Oct 2003; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Only run
+  depscan.sh if it exists on disk. This allows Portage to run inside a stage1
+  where /sbin/depscan.sh doesn't exist.
+  
+  30 Oct 2003; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Applied fix to
+  allow multi-level "use? (   )" in SRC_URI, closing bug #16159.
+
+*portage-2.0.49-r15/16 (21 Oct 2003): Fixes
+
+  21 Oct 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> fix-db.py: was broken
+  for python2.3 -- fixed now.
+  
+  21 Oct 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added
+  lockfiles to prelink md5 checks. Fixed caching bug where cache objects
+  were passed back as pointers instead of copies. Added 'invalidentry'
+  function to handle lockfiles -- It tests/deletes them using unlockfile.
+  Added fix-db.py to the 'databases is broken' messages.
+
+  21 Oct 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: added CDPATH
+  to unset. SELinux fix for sandbox.
+  
+*portage-2.0.49-r13/14 (10 Oct 2003): Fixes
+
+  10 Oct 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: Full adaptations
+  for python2.3 implemented. Installation setup for /usr/lib/portage/pym
+  instead of site-packages. Fix for Old-Instance unmerging which stopped
+  happening due to changed path names. Binaries shouldn't merge under
+  fetchonly.
+
+*portage-2.0.49-r11/12 (08 Oct 2003): Internal Only.
+
+*portage-2.0.49-r10 (08 Oct 2003): Fixes
+
+  08 Oct 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixed a
+  seemingly random traceback involving lockfiles -- Categories weren't
+  being created before a lockfile was attempted in the category directory.
+  More enhancements to aid migration to python-2.3. Added writemsg() as
+  a general function for outputting information -- Takes an argument that
+  is interpreted as debug level and prints synchronisly to stderr. Yanked
+  domenu pending a GLEP.
+
+*portage-2.0.49-r9 (07 Oct 2003): Fixes
+
+  07 Oct 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Atomic lock
+  updates and self.create() fixes. Counter enhancements.
+
+*portage-2.0.49-r8 (05 Oct 2003): 
+
+  05 Oct 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: Changed #! line to
+  use /usr/bin/python to aid in migration.
+  
+  05 Oct 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: More use/has
+  output fixups.
+  
+  05 Oct 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: General cleanups.
+  Added in baselayout info to emerge info. --skipfirst isn't a persistent
+  option on resume anymore.
+  
+  05 Oct 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> fix-db.py: New script to
+  aid in diagnosing and eventually fixing /var/db issues. It makes almost no
+  modifications at the moment.
+  
+  05 Oct 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> prepstrip: Addition of
+  a condition for etdyn binaries -- they list as shared objects but aren't.
+  
+  05 Oct 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Added non-cvs
+  patch -- repoman can be used outside of cvs trees for scanning/checking.
+  Added a masking fix for packages that use 'arch?' dependencies. Permission
+  fix on stats pickle.
+
+  05 Oct 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Subversion
+  directories are ignored along with CVS in listdir() when ignorecvs is set.
+  USE_EXPAND is fixed. Global and package counter fixes. ATOMIC VARDB moves
+  are now implemented -- Still need a way to recover broken operations.
+  Counter functions are now implemented in dbapi only. vardbapi now implements
+  aux_get for all possible files listed in the package's info directory. New
+  functions: lockfile()/lockdir(), unlockfile()/unlockdir().
+  
+*portage-2.0.49-r7 (26 Sep 2003): Binary package fixes + spacing issues.
+
+  26 Sep 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge.sh: Spacing fixes
+  for tab/space mixes. glob fix for getgccversion().
+  
+  26 Sep 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fix for binary
+  use flag tb.
+
+  26 Sep 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> xpak.py: Fix for scan()
+  tb when file is invalid or shorter than XPAK header length.
+
+*portage-2.0.49-r6 (23 Sep 2003): SELinux, DistCC, and pretend output fixes.
+
+  23 Sep 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: selinux context
+  fixes -- using ${T} now. DISTCC_DIR added by default and given an addwrite.
+  
+  23 Sep 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: gccversion() added
+  to help distcc and the version checking calls that break distcc permissions.
+  Fix for create() and the useflag passing from binary packages. When using
+  pkgs, is_newer_ver_installed() no longer trashes ebuild names. Don't look
+  for fetch restrictions with binary packages. Included a modified patch that
+  shows only in-slot versions for packages during pretend output -- In-slot
+  now shows up exactly as a single-slot package would -- New slots show up
+  as new packages -- proper output. Killed debug for everything except regen
+  which now shows the deps being regenerated. Fixed regen to ignore keywords
+  just like sync does already... should fix a few missing cache entry problems
+  on rsync1 and speed up sync times all around.
+  
+  23 Sep 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Additions for
+  distcc support.
+  
+
+*portage-2.0.49-r5 (19 Sep 2003): Fixes
+
+  19 Sep 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Make
+  DISTCC_DIR set if not defined.
+  
+  19 Sep 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Fix for -U
+  introduced bugs with Str+None tracebacks. Mild change to log info -- Added
+  short pkgname before ebuild. Eclassdb changes and flush/save calls.
+
+  19 Sep 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Unregister
+  signal handling after receiving the signal and resend the signal we got.
+  Run depscan during env-update. Migrated eclass stuff into it's own pickle.
+  Code for moving /var/cache/edb/dep into a pickle for each category added --
+  disabled via hardcoded value presently. Removed some try blocks in favor
+  of detecting the cause of an error first -- Hopefully gives a little speed
+  up. Cache fixes and useful output added. A tbz2 moving bug where an error
+  was printed about files the destination existing already is now fixed. The
+  dircache is cleared on every unmerge now, to ensure the cache does not
+  interfere. bzip2 is spawned with the quiet flag now. Update list is sorted
+  for proper year/quarter order now. -arch isn't an invalid keywork anymore.
+  Generic pickle reading and writing functions added.
+
+*portage-2.0.49-r4 (10 Sep 2003): Fixes
+
+  10 Sep 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: Added the facility
+  to incorporate binary package use flags when calculating deps. Changes in
+  -r2 and -r3 included quick fixes to SELinux code and the addition of
+  LINGUAS to USE_EXPAND.
+
+*portage-2.0.49-r1 (25 Aug 2003): Fixes
+
+  25 Aug 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: -K traceback fix.
+  Made fetchonly quit traversing the merge code after fetching.
+
+  25 Aug 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Removed
+  auxcache saving code -- A few bugs and caching problems need to be resolved.
+  Moved a block of code in aux_get inside of an existing conditional -- Should
+  provide a small speedup.
+
+*portage-2.0.49 (22 Aug 2003): GRP downloading, Selinux, General Fixes
+
+  22 Aug 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Make
+  auxcache saving more friendly.
+
+*portage-2.0.49_pre20/21 (20 Aug 2003): Fixes + security enhancements
+
+  20 Aug 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fix for
+  auxcache saving.
+
+*portage-2.0.49_pre19 (20 Aug 2003): Fixes + security enhancements
+
+  20 Aug 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: Updates to Wayne's
+  modifications on dispatch-conf.
+  
+  20 Aug 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: sfperms
+  added to strip permissions if set in features. selinux context support.
+  Nakano's cleanups for unmerge output. Added distcc and ccache versions
+  into emerge info's output. 'autoaddcvs' FEATURE is documented in make.conf.
+  
+  20 Aug 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Selinux code
+  added. No longer traceback on cp_list for categories. Added in a patch to
+  use a pickle for auxcache storing. Should help slow IO boxes.
+
+*portage-2.0.49_pre18 (15 Aug 2003): Fixes.
+
+  15 Aug 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Nakano's
+  fix for a glob expansion bug on a tar call.
+  
+  15 Aug 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Nakano's fixes
+  for exiting on a signal and incorrect output for the unmerge screen.
+  
+  15 Aug 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added in
+  patch to shuffle thirdparty mirrors. Nakano's fixes for digests+fetching
+  bugs/messages/errors. Virtual stripping fix.
+
+  15 Aug 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: Fix to emerge -V
+  and related output. Typo fixes. Parent thread no longer drops root in
+  userpriv. 'autoaddcvs' feature now determines if portage will auto-add
+  files to cvs. Virtuals fix for an empty key line. Added user categories
+  file as /etc/portage/categories.
+
+*portage-2.0.49_pre17 (30 Jul 2003): Resuming/wget GRP, Sandbox updates
+
+  30 Jul 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: GRP updates to
+  use RESUMECOMMAND to determine how to download GRP binaries. Adjustments
+  to the portage.spawn() code to try and speed it up by eliminating the
+  copy phase (copy-on-write forking). Massive messages for corrupt FS issues.
+  Movefile() checks to ensure we actually complete the moves. Killed the
+  broken pipe message for tbz2 extraction.
+
+*portage-2.0.49_pre16 (29 Jul 2003): Touchups
+
+  29 Jul 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: Clean up the debug
+  output and quickfix downloading tbz2s.
+
+*portage-2.0.49_pre15 (29 Jul 2003): Fixes
+
+  29 Jul 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: imported time.
+  
+  29 Jul 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Corrected the
+  logic used to determine whether a package or an ebuild is used when given
+  the option.
+  
+  29 Jul 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Changed a
+  lot of calls using 'print' into sys.stderr.write() calls. Added try/except
+  around the source lstat to catch funky errors where the file doesn't really
+  exist -- Presents descriptions to users about what to do. Added more catches
+  for movefile() calls to ensure it dies on failures. Changed the tbz2
+  extraction call to stop the 'cat: broken pipe' message.
+  
+*portage-2.0.49_pre14/48-r7 (24 Jul 2003): Fixes and getbinpkg caching
+
+  22 Jul 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: Typo fixes for
+  the ECLASS_DEPTH comparisons in ebuild.sh. Traceback fixes for blocking
+  packages in depclean and in pretend. Caching added to getbinpkg code --
+  generation of cache supported, but cachefile is staticly located. Langs
+  patch from Nakano in bug #9988 included.
+  
+*portage-2.0.49_pre13 (22 Jul 2003): Fixes
+  
+  22 Jul 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> doman: Doesn't gzip
+  .keep files now.
+
+  22 Jul 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: USERLAND
+  fix. ** ECLASS depth tracker and additions to the new depend code. **
+  
+  22 Jul 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Fetch restriction
+  now adds a red F to the pretend output. Made the blockers message better.
+  Added 'local' to rsync excludes to allow the category to be added for admins.
+
+  22 Jul 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixed a TB
+  caused by a missing 'strict' reference --- Needs to be fixed better. Fixed
+  a typo in the populate code for bintree/getbinpkg.
+
+*portage-2.0.49_pre11 (16 Jul 2003): GRP, General, VIDEO_CARDS/INPUT_DEVICES
+
+  16 Jul 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> quickpkg: SpanKY's
+  friendly edition now included.
+  
+  16 Jul 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: USE_EXPAND
+  support for expanding bash variables into USE --- VIDEO_CARDS="blah"
+  USE="video_cards_blah". Added a notice about fetching metadata so you
+  can see that it's happening.
+
+  16 Jul 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> make.globals*: Added
+  default CHUNKSIZE for binhosts. Added defaults for USE_EXPAND which is
+  used to expand variables into USE from the give names.
+
+  16 Jul 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: Debug removal.
+
+*portage-2.0.49_pre10 (16 Jul 2003): GRP and General Fixes
+
+  16 Jul 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *:
+  Quick fix for a breakage in the GRP --getbinpkg code.
+
+*portage-2.0.49_pre9 (16 Jul 2003): GRP and General Fixes
+
+  16 Jul 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: add
+  LDFLAGS and ASFLAGS. Exports are only done if vars are already set.
+
+  16 Jul 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Added support for
+  --getbinpkg and --getbinpkgonly --- GRP complement. Fixes for blocking-
+  not-working  bug
+
+  16 Jul 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Patch to detect
+  incomplete digests.
+  
+  16 Jul 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: ebuild fetch
+  now checks md5sums (run from ebuild). Support for getbinpkg.
+
+  16 Jul 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> xpak.py: Added more in-
+  memory operations support.
+
+  16 Jul 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> getbinpkg.py: Supporting
+  code for binary package retrieval.
+
+*portage-2.0.48-r2 (29 Jun 2003): Fixes and Multiple Overlays
+
+  29 Jun 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Fixed the
+  commands for tar.
+
+  29 Jun 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Mode the chdir
+  to fix the spanky bugs down to post_emerge to fix the "can't merge an
+  ebuild file with an absolute path" bug.
+
+  29 Jun 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added function
+  suffix_array(array,suffix) which takes an array and adds suffix to the end
+  of each element. Added 'cd / ;' into the getstatusoutput() calls to ldconfig.
+  Added a check so that portage doesn't try to add files/dir from a non-cvs
+  directory. Added 'manifest' target to ebuild/portage to only adjust the
+  manifest. Added Multiple overlay support -- Should be fairly thorough --
+  needs more debug though. Fixed portdbapi::new_protect_filename().
+
+*portage-2.0.48-r2 (29 Jun 2003): Cleanups and Fixes (testing)
+
+  29 Jun 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Lots of
+  consistency cleanups. Added more files to the var/db data for future
+  use. Added more die conditions to failure points. Fixed/Hacked a fix
+  into the inherit-not-dieing problem. Set TMPDIR and TMP globally. Added
+  notice for multiple inheritance. Fixed inheritance problem with multiple
+  inheritance clobbering previous list of eclasses. Basic support for
+  multiple overlays added to ebuild.sh.
+  
+  29 Jun 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: SRC_URI fix for
+  'rm /etc/*' problem. Spanky bug: chdir to / to avoid problems when merging
+  from inside a builddir that gets deleted.
+  
+  29 Jun 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> etc-update: Added notice
+  for symlinks in cfg_prot setups.
+  
+  29 Jun 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: complain if
+  FEATURES=cvs not set.
+  
+  29 Jun 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added in
+  a work around for the 'USE=+useflag' users. Added support for nouserpriv
+  via RESTRICT. Fix the bug with ROOTs with no previous file causing a TB
+  from counter_tick(). Make symlinks follow config_protect just like normal
+  files.
+  
+  10 Jun 2003; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh, portage.py,
+  various commands in bin/, cnf/make.conf.mac, cnf/make.globals.mac: 
+  Added preliminary Mac OS X/BSD support.
+
+  06 Jun 2003; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: new eclass
+  dependency implementation to totally isolate eclass dependency tweaks
+  from in-ebuild dependency tweaks. eclasses now absolutely do not touch
+  DEPEND and RDEPEND. Any dependencies added by eclasses are transferred
+  to another variable and added in to DEPEND and RDEPEND after the entire
+  ebuild has been processed, and after RDEPEND has optionally inherited a
+  value from DEPEND due to it being unset. The result of this change is
+  that inherit statements no longer need to be placed strategically in an
+  ebuild so that they are after the DEPEND and RDEPEND, and fix a host of
+  other eclass mis-use/side-effect bugs.
+
+*portage-2.0.48-r1 (29 May 2003): Touchups.
+
+  29 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Quick fixes
+  to a couple of rare bugs. Added some quoting to $S. Removed the DISTCC
+  hosts variable. Moved build-info's creation around so that it actually
+  works for non-portage-compiled merges.
+  
+  29 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Quick fix for
+  the files-dir-not-added lack of notification. Added in a fix for a possible
+  security problem with the repoman commit messages and symlink-attacks.
+  
+  29 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> cnf/*: Added in a diff
+  from 'Danny' that contained a SYNC cleanup and expanded explanation. :)
+  
+  29 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> output.py: Fixed the
+  TitleBar and unset TERM issues.
+  
+  29 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added new
+  functions to aid in determining virtuals. cpv_all() added to dbapi -- it
+  displays all versions instead of just package names -- cp_all() now calls
+  this function to gain it's data. get_provide() and get_all_provides() added
+  to collect PROVIDE info from vartree packages. getallcpv() added to vartree
+  to reference the dbapi call. Always set ignoring errors on findname now.
+  Cleaned up the virtuals-trimming code. Don't mention the fixpackages script
+  if the user doesn't have any packages.
+
+*portage-2.0.48 (20 May 2003): Cleanups Release.
+
+  20 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Tiny cleanups.
+  Fixed the profile information in emerge -V for symlinks that have a
+  trailing '/' in them. Fix 'emerge -s' filesize lookups to use a new
+  function finddigest() from dbapi.
+
+  20 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emergehelp.py: Updated.
+
+  20 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> etc-update: Small
+  fixups for pager issues. Made the nothing-to-do exit message 'happier'.
+
+  20 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> extra-functions.sh:
+  Beat the debian-utils requirement out of the functions. Prefers them,
+  but falls back to already-existing tools otherwise.
+
+  20 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> fixpackages: 75%
+  overhaul to match the new handling of update code.
+
+  20 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> quickpkg: Understands
+  "--help" as an option now.
+
+  20 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> man/*: Simple updates.
+
+  20 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: fetch()
+  now calculates md5sums when doing a fetchonly. finddigest() added for
+  finding digests -- gets overlay digests if existing. Binary packages
+  are  only updated when explicitly requested via fixpackages as a command
+  or a FEATURES setting. Clear the dircache after portage initializes  to
+  reduce memory consumption.
+
+*portage-2.0.48_pre6 (12 Apr 2003): General cleanups and fixes.
+
+  12 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Additions
+  to better handle overlay ebuilds with regard to metadata cache. aux_get
+  calls findname2() which returns (location,in_overlay) -- findname() is
+  a wrapper for findname2(). Extra debugging fixes for findname() issues.
+
+  12 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Code
+  cleanups and a chgrp/chown pass to move all portage-owned files to
+  root ownership -- Two pass to leave specific-group and specific-owner
+  settings alone.
+  
+  12 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: code cleanups
+  and comment touchups.
+  
+  12 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emergehelp.py: Updates
+  for --debug, --digest, and --skipfirst.
+
+  12 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> g-cpan.pl: Added more
+  arches to the KEYWORDS. Made it copy files back to distfiles.
+
+  12 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> prepstrip: Removed ${D}
+  from the outputted filenames during stripping.
+  
+  12 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> man/* cnf/*:
+  documentation updates.
+
+*portage-2.0.48_pre5 (29 Apr 2003): Cleanups and polish.
+
+  29 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Another
+  typo fix.
+
+*portage-2.0.48_pre4 (28 Apr 2003): Cleanups and polish.
+
+  28 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Quick fix
+  for a traceback/typo in the 'emerge -C' code.
+
+*portage-2.0.48_pre3 (28 Apr 2003): Cleanups and polish.
+
+  28 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: listdir()
+  now takes care of non-existance errors instead of propagating them --- can
+  take EmptyOnError=1 as a param to return [] instead of None. All calls to
+  portage's listdir() have been updated to the new conventions. listdir()
+  ignores .# files from cvs now when ignorecvs=1 is set. Fixes for another
+  world-depleting bug. If findname() is passed a virtual, it now informs
+  the user to report a bug, instead of weird tracebacks. Added code in
+  dblink::unmerge() to remove stale virtual entries when set under trimworld.
+
+  28 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> etc-update: enabled the
+  diff pager again.
+
+  28 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: --changelog
+  implies --pretend. Spelling fixes. Added --skipfirst to allow the first
+  package in a resume operation to be skipped over --- allows -e to rebuild
+  almost everything, even under weird circumstances. Located another missed
+  world-file-depleting bug in unmerge() calls. Included a patch to fix an
+  off-by-one bug in depclean.
+
+  27 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fix for
+  listdir() running on a non-existant dir -- returns None. Sets generated
+  files to the portage group -- Manifest & digests. Some coloring additions.
+  Handling of 'strict' features added. TEMPORARY addition of 'manifest' USE
+  flag so this can go mainstream now. Fixes in doebuild() to get unmerge
+  working again for ebuild. Debug code added to findname to help figuring
+  out the seemingly random tracebacks -- suspect is pkgsplit(). Unmasking
+  code for package.mask added in -- works just like mask, and can override
+  specific versions or ranges -- One per line: /etc/portage/package.unmask.
+  Security fix for python cPickle code -- mtimedb could create arbitrary
+  execution of code bug. Global update notices/info. Fixes for loops over
+  listdir() that depended upon raised errors to determine code flow.
+
+  27 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> cvstree.py: Added in
+  'removed' status checks.
+  
+  27 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Added in more
+  cvs checks. /space/cvsroot is now complained about.
+
+  27 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Added in
+  PORTAGE_CALLER support to identify it as a 'do_update()' candidate.
+
+  27 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> dodoc: Check sizes to
+  prevent 0 byte files from being added.
+
+*portage-2.0.48_pre2 (10 Apr 2003): Digests & Repoman
+
+  16 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Added CVS/Root
+  checks to ensure Manifests will be correct. Fixed local use-flag bug.
+  Commented out the no-stable code, as it can't be implemented well as is.
+
+  16 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> prepstrip: Fixed a
+  problem where files were not being stripped.
+
+  16 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Added in
+  a call to 'make -n' when under the --debug flag.
+
+*portage-2.0.48_pre1 (10 Apr 2003): Digests & Repoman
+
+  10 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> prepstrip: fix it so
+  that it actually strips and provides reasonable info.
+  
+  10 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Added short
+  option for pretend. Added pretend capability to the majority of the
+  commit code. Bug fix for local IUSE code. Added in support for removed
+  cvs files.
+  
+  10 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Changed
+  'manifest' to 'Manifest'. Removed the requirement that Manifests exist --
+  complain about it, but only die if 'strict' is set.
+
+*portage-2.0.47-r15 (09 Apr 2003): New digests/manifests, touchups.
+
+  09 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> bin/*: Fixes for Cross-
+  compiling.
+  
+  09 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Quick touchups
+  in the category- and repository-level manifest calls.
+  
+  09 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> cnf/*: Added/sync'd
+  PORTAGE_NICENESS.
+
+  09 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixed hole
+  in the listdir code that occured on cache expiration in the -r14 changes.
+
+*portage-2.0.47-r14 (09 Apr 2003): 
+
+  09 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> bin/*: Removed DEBUGBUILD
+  in favor of FEATURES/RESTRICT settings of nostrip.
+  
+  09 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild: Removed root
+  restriction so that digests can be made as non-root.
+  
+  09 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Added niceness
+  
+  09 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Added the
+  nostable/allmasked check in. Small cleanups. Move to 'manifests' instead
+  of enhanced digests. Added filters on $Id and $Header. Fixed commitmsg
+  and added short options.
+  
+  09 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> cvstree.py: More features
+  added. pathdata() provides dir or file info. isadded() gives cvs status.
+  
+  09 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: listdir()
+  enhancements. Debug removal. Broke up the digest creation functions to
+  make them a little more generic. Added manifest code into the digest
+  calls. Moved code in doebuild() around to allow for non-root calls for
+  devs and repoman. Added 'PORTAGE_CALLER' env var to prevent repeated
+  running of unnecessary functions.
+
+*portage-2.0.47-r13 (02 Apr 2003): Fixes & Security -- Repoman+Digests
+
+  02 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Added debug to
+  the dep selection code in depgraph.
+
+  02 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> cvstree.py: Added new
+  module to handle cvs information without having to ask 'cvs status' many
+  times to determine file locations.
+
+  02 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Major fix ups
+  to ease the introduction of enhanced digests. Intelligent cvs queries
+  and use of the new cvstree module for information about files in the tree.
+  Auto-digests, auto-fetches trivial cvs changes,  detects changelogs that
+  exist but have not been added to cvs, and detects '*' in KEYWORDS.
+
+  02 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: A typo fix or two.
+  prepstrip: fixup for sed's issues with '\000' (made it \001).
+
+*portage-2.0.47-r12 (27 Mar 2003): Fixes & Security -- Repoman+Digests
+
+  27 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Moved all
+  initialization error messages to stderr.write() calls so that the output
+  doesn't get mixed will called data. Added a warning about not being in
+  the portage group. Color touchups. Digest path fixups.
+
+  27 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Significant
+  additions to the commit code to nicely handle the changes for enhanced
+  digests. Added --commitmsg and --commitmsgfile flags to allow easier
+  scripting. Added a REPOMAN environment variable to prevent portage from
+  running do_updates(). Added 'grouplist' which makes groupings of subparts
+  from a list of parts. Added do* functions to manage the recursion into
+  the dirs of the repository.
+
+  27 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> xpak.py: Change from
+  lstat to stat... We're not concerned with links. Return 0 on not found.
+
+  27 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portageq: added new
+  functions: best_visible, mass_best_visible, all_best_visible.
+
+  27 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Added '--digest'
+  to force recreation of digests from the command line. Fixed portage version
+  comparisions for the 'update portage please' notices.
+
+  27 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Added an
+  extra rm of the 'successful' file.
+
+  26 Mar 2003; Alain Penders <alain@gentoo.org> portageq: added
+  mass_best_version method to help GUIs resolve best versions.
+
+*portage-2.0.47-r11 (22 Mar 2003): Fixes & Security -- Winding up 2.0 series.
+
+  22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: listdir()
+  now is capable of recursive calls and listing only files. Used in new
+  additions to digestgen() and digestcheck() for ebuilds and files/* --
+  listdir(dir,recursive=0,filesonly=0). Digests now must contain all files
+  from files/ and also the ebuild -- non-archives are prefixed with '/'.
+  Full tbz2 fixes are now implemented... They can take a while to perform
+  so status thingies are provided. update_ents() provides a batch-update
+  as it would take rediculous amounts of time otherwise.
+
+  22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> : fixpackages calls
+  portageexit() to save the mtimedb state so it actually works. :)
+
+  22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Added
+  'xtermTitle' calls to emergelog to set the title during phases of merging.
+  Added more emergelog calls to provide more specific information.
+
+  22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> : Added two scripts to
+  aid portage. 'fixdbentries' takes (old, new, path) and does an inteligent
+  sed on all the db entries that should be changed. Used by global moves and
+  in the tbz2 fixes. 'fixpackages' expires the updates timestamp and reloads
+  portage to force do_updates() to run. Added missing Header lines.
+
+  22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> xpak.py: Correct off-by-8
+  bug in last commit. infosize does not contain the full size... Offset
+  begins _after_ the marker -- Added xpaksize for complete offset from EOF.
+
+  22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fix for
+  die-on-wheel-group-missing bug. The logfiles don't cause the counter
+  to be incremented and now match the merged package's COUNTER value.
+  get_counter_tick_core(root) does not increment the counter. Sandbox is
+  now working in all enabled cases, instead of just usersandbox. /var/db
+  and binaries (assuming they are RW) are now updated to contain the proper
+  info --- Added a 'fixdbentries' script to perform the updates to the data,
+  and added a 'move_ent' function to class binarytree (not fakedbapi). Added
+  a 'ebuild does not exist' error for the case of ebuilds in a wrongly named
+  directory. Added a notice for invalid tbz2's. Removed the 'make.defaults'
+  missing notice :-/. Duplicated the bintree creation so that it would be
+  available for do_update(). Catch when 'updates' is missing from mtimedb.
+
+  22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> output.py: Added xterm
+  title bar function to set the titles... xtermTitle(mystring). Only set
+  if using color and terminal is [axE]term.
+
+  22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Additions
+  courtesy of Gerk and Vladamir... Checks all portage variables. Runs
+  a check against invalid (but still parsable) syntax errors in names.
+  Checks for invalid IUSE from use.desc and use.local.desc. Checks that
+  licenses are valid. Checks for legal keywords with a default set or
+  keywords.desc, if available. 'missingvar' tests moved to aux_get() calls.
+
+  22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> prepstrip: Added test
+  to allow cross-compile-stripping to work properly. Rewrite the script to
+  be whitespace-aware and recursively process directories at level 1.
+
+  22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> prepallstrip: Removed
+  all code from this script and made it a call to "prepstrip $D".
+
+  22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> g-cpan.pl: Add in chomps
+  for the portageq calls.
+
+  22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Allow
+  --fetchonly of block'd packages.
+
+  22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Cleanups and
+  corrections for sandbox which has been disabled and broken for a couple
+  revisions now. use_{enable,with} die messages removed as they are in sub-
+  shells when used and won't kill the merge --- Moved to echo >&2.
+
+  21 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> xpak.py: Updates to make
+  the xpak code self-sustaining. Added basic documentation to the functions
+  and a description of the format in the comments at the top of the module.
+
+*portage-2.0.47-r10 (13 Mar 2003): Fixes -- Winding up 2.0 series.
+
+  13 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Less strict
+  check of permissions when fixing permissions for userpriv -- only requires
+  02070 and group portage instead of 02770 for check.
+
+  13 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> g-cpan.pl: Fix to the
+  call to portageq.
+  
+  13 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> etc-update: Fix for
+  deleted files in a CONFIG_PROTECT situation.
+
+  13 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: fix for keepwork
+  and keeptemp ** MUST ENSURE THAT CLEAN CLEANS BEFORE A FULL MERGE. 
+
+  12 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Added more
+  conditions on rsync -- Proper error detection. Rsync failures will not
+  cause a cache regeneration. Portage no longer considers masked portages
+  candidates for 'An update to portage'.
+
+*portage-2.0.47-r9 (10 Mar 2003): Fixes -- cvs-src, ebuild.sh, repoman
+
+  10 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> make.conf*: Adjusted
+  the LOGDIR message and change the default location to /var/log/portage.
+
+  10 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: One more fix
+  for the PORTDIR setting -- '/usr/portage' was matching '/usr/portage.cvs'.
+  
+  10 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> etc-update: Added the
+  capability to automerge all files in the list -- with out without prompts.
+  
+  10 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Added messages
+  on failure to create a depgraph -- Helps with bad DEPEND detection. Made
+  'emerge sync' stop if it fails, and not update cache.
+  
+  10 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: added an
+  external extra_functions.sh file with extra functions for portage --
+  it is flag-o-matic and pieces of eutils presently. Removed libdir/incdir
+  from einstall(). Added 'keepwork' to keep the source code after a package
+  is merged. Removed the 'local' declaration of ROOT in dyn_install() --
+  this fixes has_version in src_install(). Fixed the sourcing of environment
+  so that variables are peristent across stages of a merge. Removed the
+  SANDBOX vars from the environment file, as that upsets SANDBOX.
+  
+  10 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixes to
+  permission problems with cvs-src and ccache (removed nested try's). Log
+  counter fix -- One log per package now.
+
+*portage-2.0.47-r8 (02 Mar 2003): Fixes -- cvs-src, ebuild.sh, repoman
+
+  02 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: Fixes to eclass
+  errors and messages -- raise on not found. emerge --debug works for
+  ebuilds with syntax errors now -- needs better implimentation though,
+  debug=0 in params can't be used due to scope limits.
+
+  28 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: reorg ebuild.sh again
+  to ensure that aliases are expanded properly. Repoman now determines the
+  proper PORTDIR to set when loading portage to scan the cvs tree. portage.py
+  fixes for cvs-src permission problems with userpriv.
+
+*portage-2.0.47-r7 (27 Feb 2003): Quick fix for eerror() problem.
+
+*portage-2.0.47-r6 (26 Feb 2003): Drop deprecated warnings for new syntax.
+
+  26 Feb 2003; Alain Penders <alain@gentoo.org> emerge: Drop deprecated
+  warnings for new syntax.  Don't make people switch to the new syntax
+  until it's agreed on by everyone.
+
+*portage-2.0.47-r5 (26 Feb 2003): Wicked Fast, BugFree v3.1, UserPriv
+
+  26 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: Update docs and help
+  again to drop --system and --world, and pull them from emerge's command
+  line. General cleanups.
+  
+  26 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge/portage.py: Fixes
+  to the cache directory permissions -- all dirs are properly owned by group
+  portage now. Add CCACHE_SIZE setting so we set a value for ccache. If the
+  dirs are set to the wrong perms, make sure they get changed recursively.
+  
+  26 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Rearraged the
+  code blocks so that they are easier to follow -- no more code in between
+  functions. All code follows function definitions now.
+
+*portage-2.0.47-r4 (25 Feb 2003): Wicked Fast, BugFree v3, UserPriv
+
+  25 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: Update docs and help
+  to match the deprecation of actions without '--' preceding them.
+
+  25 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Message
+  updates. Fix secpass for portage user. Set PORTAGE_GID for ebuild.sh to
+  use regardless of GID in use (wheel/portage). Only try and delete things
+  in PORTAGE_TMPDIR if we have perms to do it... see secpass note. Moved the
+  cachedir creation after settings in created so that we can use spawn instead
+  of system for the calls to 'chown/chmod -R'. Fix the note on make.defaults.
+  Fix for the 404 catcher in the fetch code.
+
+  25 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Move all actions
+  into '--action' form -- Notify of deprecated usages. Moved the functions
+  from the top of emerge down below the command line parser for readability.
+  Kill FEATURES=noauto if we're running emerge -- it can break things. Make
+  -U imply -u so people aren't confused. --debug now enables all debug
+  variables in portage. Fix wheel/portage group requirements messages. Get
+  the current portage version when doing rsync via the portage tree's files
+  and not the loaded cache so that it is aware of changes immediately instead
+  of the next run. 
+
+  25 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Try to change
+  to good a good path at the start of the ebuild to prevent operations from
+  happening in places like home. After the ebuild's install phase, check to
+  see if any unsafe perm combo's exist and die if they do. Fix permissions
+  on the cachedir as we're changing them to root:portage. &> on environment
+  file prevented it from actually creating the file -- changed to 2>. Change
+  'true' to 'exit 0' to be a bit more explicit about what we're doing.
+
+  24 Feb 2003; Alain Penders <alain@gentoo.org> repoman: Added nested/sub-shell
+  die testing.
+
+  23 Feb 2003; Alain Penders <alain@gentoo.org>: Added bin/portageq tool to
+  provide access to portage internal information without using APIs that
+  are changing.  All tools that currently access portage information by
+  importing portage.py and poking around in it should switch to using this
+  tool instead. Changed some tools in bin/ to use it, so those won't break
+  either.
+
+*portage-2.0.47-r3 (17 Feb 2003): Wicked Fast, BugFree v2, UserPriv
+
+  22 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> bin/: added dispatch-conf
+  and db-fix.pl to the bins. Looking at dispatch-conf to replace etc-update
+  written by Jeremy Wohl (bug 14079). db-fix.pl is a rescue tool that Blizzy
+  wrote up to recreate/repair counter files in the DB -- shouldn't be needed
+  anymore as portage fixes the counter at every load of the counter, but we
+  will hang on to it just in case.
+
+  22 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: moved the
+  wheelgid references to portage_gid references. Wheel is being deprecated.
+  Added notice to baselayout message that group portage controls everything
+  now. Killed the BASH_ENV settings -- moved the reference to /etc/portage/
+  in case it's desired in some way -- This fixes AROUND ONE HUNDRED reports
+  on 2.0.47-r2. Try/catch invalid tbz2's -- should fix a couple bad tarball
+  bugs. Make the prelink call spawn'd without sandbox. buildpkg/userpriv
+  fix via actionmap (Jasmin Buchert; bug 16106).
+
+  22 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: --upgradeonly
+  added from jrray's patch; added some slot handling. --deep got a short
+  flag 'D'. 'info' can be run by non-root. '--quiet' kills all but package
+  names on searches. Basic slot detection added to the pretend output so
+  that it doesn't always say downgrade. Ignore block list when fetching.
+  Can use RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM to select a from for rsync to --exclude-from;
+  (Michael Sterrett; Bug 15882). 'emerge rsync' deletes the dbcachedir
+  before it begins updates. Catch  exceptions during rsync cache regen.
+
+  22 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: General fixes
+  to the spelling of things. 'cd $PORT_TMPDIR' corrected to the actual vars
+  name. Stripping distcc from PATH if it is there before portage sets it.
+  Same with ccache. If we try to compile with out unpacking, complain. Make
+  sure to chown files to user portage. 
+
+  22 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> cnf/*: CFLAGS notes,
+  pentium4 breaks things. Added more descriptions for FEATURES. Added
+  RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM description.
+
+  22 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: Updates to the
+  copyright headers.
+  
+*portage-2.0.47-r2 (17 Feb 2003): Wicked Fast, BugFree, UserPriv
+
+  18 Feb 2003; Alain Penders <alain@gentoo.org> portage-2.0.47-r2.ebuild:
+  If $PORTAGE_TEST is set, skip the beeps/delay messages.  Needed to make
+  the regression test scripts bearable :-)
+
+  17 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixed the
+  depcache code once again -- ebuild and cache were never set to the same
+  mtimes. Removed last os.system() call.
+
+  17 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: catdir fix.
+  Added 'emerge-webrsync' from gentoolkit so users can use snapshots on
+  initial installs.
+
+  17 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emergehelp.py: Updated
+  it to the current calls and conventions. Added comments about etc-update
+  and emerge-webrsync.
+
+  17 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Changed the
+  search code around to use compiled re's instead of .lower() searches.
+  Trivial touchups in spacing. Only write worldfile if not --pretend. Fix
+  losing-packages-to-be-merged during merge bug. Allow options to change
+  in a --resume call so that --buildpkg and such may be added.
+  
+  17 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Added a
+  PREROOTPATH to allow special paths to be added prior to root and ebuild's
+  required pathes. ${S} is now generated prior to sourcing an ebuild so
+  that it is available in the ebuild at source-time, as opposed to in the
+  phases.
+
+*portage-2.0.47-r1 (16 Feb 2003): Wicked Fast + UserPriv
+
+  16 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Changed a
+  few os.system calls to spawn calls. Added userpriv in features check to
+  spawn. HOME is now placed in BUILD_PREFIX/homedir when userpriv is enabled.
+  Valid command for doebuild() moved to the top of the function. Reorganized
+  the directory creation code in doebuild(). HOME is cleaned for every merge
+  if in userpriv. LOG_COUNTER fix for the per-ebuild logs -- Only one value
+  is used per $PF now.
+
+  16 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Adjusted options
+  to remove --autoclean and make it on-by-default unless killed in FEATURES
+  with 'noclean'. Removed debug for --resume. Added RSYNC_TIMEOUT as some
+  dialup and other users are experiencing problems with rsync never finishing
+  a connection. Added check at the end of an rsync to notify the user when
+  a new version of portage is available. Added --pretend capability/fix to
+  the --resume code. No resume data and a --resume is no longer a failure.
+
+  16 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Updates to
+  logic of ${T}/successful handling to allow proper cleaning. dyn_clean()
+  will do a recursive dir removal after cleaning specific files. Recursive
+  chown removed. CCACHE_DIR handled in portage.py now. Removed a few comments
+  and unnecessary checks.
+
+  16 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> cnf/*: added comments
+  on FEATURES=noclean,noauto,userpriv,usersandbox
+
+  15 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Alain changed
+  the .config() call in the search class to a .settings[] -- Speedup.
+
+  14 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added
+  resume to mtimedbkeys.
+  
+  14 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: --columns
+  flag to support column output in --pretend. --resume support added
+  to restart portage with the package list with which it stopped -- data
+  is stored in mtimedb. Added '--verbose' to 'emerge info' to display
+  all variables in settings.
+
+  13 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Fix to
+  distcc and ccache to prevent them from calling themselves if they
+  catch themselves in the path -- double path problem.
+
+  13 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixes to
+  the aux_get() code for metacache updates to eclass deps. Debug output
+  removal.
+
+  13 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: More fixes
+  to the calls to aux_get() for metacache code. Rearranged the option and
+  action arrays. Added --nospinner flag.
+
+  13 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Reorg of flags.
+  Addition of --noconfmem to prevent portage from yanking already-merged
+  config files. Extra message in --version about missing gcc and sourcing
+  /etc/profile to get it. Yanked the majority of the rsync cachedb update
+  code -- Moved it to aux_get.
+  
+  13 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Typo fixes.
+  aux_get() now has a metacachedb param for using metadata cache over the
+  initial call to doebuild() -- Should speed up rsync users regen time.
+  Added support for --noconfmem via settings["NOCONFMEM"] in treewalk().
+  Added sys.exit(1) on failure to move files during merge. Comment
+  realignment.
+  
+  11 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fix the
+  depcache code by adding in a missing stat call after regeneration.
+  Call portageexit() in exithandler() so that mtimedb gets written out
+  on cancelled runs. Add in --quiet option. Currently only kills the
+  processing messages on emerge regen.
+  
+  11 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Fix the
+  eclass code to remove the double inherits cause by eclasses managing
+  that on their own.
+
+*portage-2.0.46-r12 (07 Feb 2003): Fixups
+
+  07 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Move
+  logdir check/generation code so that it's created before 'clean'. Fix
+  the usemask/archkeys bug and a related bug with the var enabled. Fix
+  to movefile() code to ensure symlinks are handled properly.
+
+  07 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Make per-
+  ebuild logs use the counter to get a chronological list instead of a
+  timestamp based one.
+  
+  07 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: If a package
+  is requested to be updated but is not merged, still add it to world.
+  
+  07 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: Update to help.
+  Mostly comments on --verbose. Clarification on make.conf* mirrorselect.
+    
+*portage-2.0.46-r11 (04 Feb 2003): Fixups
+
+  04 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: distcc
+  fixups along with ccache fixups from the bug 13897 effort. Added more
+  varaibles to the build data output. Allow CC/CXX to be set if they are
+  not set in environment.
+
+  04 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Removed an
+  unnecessary call to os.unlink() in movefile that resulted in it failing
+  when moving files across devices. HTML 404 catcher -- if the distfile is
+  a reasonable size, and it's got <title>.*(not found|404).*</title> in it
+  it will be deleted and the next mirror persued.
+
+*portage-2.0.46-r10 (03 Feb 2003): Feature/Function Cleanups
+
+  03 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added
+  quotes to fallback checksum code to ensure it works on space-containing
+  filenames. Error message added in writedict. Worldfile-depleeting bug
+  fixed -- 'emerge -e world'+AUTOCLEAN would cause every package in world
+  to be removed from the worldfile to be removed.
+
+  03 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> make.conf: updated the
+  commentary about AUTOCLEAN.
+
+  03 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> etc-update: Added in
+  automerge functionality for trivial changes. Comments and whitespace
+  are just merged without asking when it's enabled.
+
+  03 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: redundant cmd
+  line flags warning. Show enabled/disabled USE flags on -vp (Masatomo
+  Nakano). Missing changelog fix for --changelog. Added an rsync timeout
+  of 60 seconds and a message on fail due to timeout.
+
+  03 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: CC/CXX fix
+  to override profile.env settings. FEATURES=distcc support to get past
+  profile.env's CC settings/lockdown. If CBUILD is defined, it is appended
+  to econf's output in a --build= statement. Added .unpacked marker to
+  the unpack code to ensure a proper unpack phase.
+
+  01 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Adjusted
+  the arch.list code to be a general masking setup. /etc/make.profile/
+  and /etc/portage/ have use.mask files that are concatenated. On fetch,
+  if downloader reports failure, then check that filesize<digestfilesize
+  and continue onto the next mirror before dying.
+
+  27 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh/portage.py:
+  eclass fixups for newdepend issues where newdepend operates on RDEPEND
+  prior to it being set to default by ebuild.sh. Repoman fix for multi-
+  arch failures by excluding /usr/portage/profiles/arch.list entries from
+  consideration, excluding $ARCH.
+
+*portage-2.0.46-r9 (14 Jan 2003): portage restart fix
+  15 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: fixed the
+  missing tabs from the cvs diff backport.
+
+*portage-2.0.46-r8 (14 Jan 2003): touchup KV{,ERS} for public stable
+
+*portage-2.0.46-r7 (14 Jan 2003): Backport from cvs and fixes.
+  portage-2.0.46* :: EXCUDES ALL PORTIONS RELATING SPECIFICALLY TO USERPRIV
+
+  14 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Persistant
+  KV and KVERS on depend calls. Sandbox violation of do_upgrade() caught.
+
+  14 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: --buildpkg
+  touchups and forward porting of some of 2.0.46-r6. Restart on -r0/proper
+  versions of portage due to VERSION not matching pkgsplit output fixed.
+
+  14 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: 20% speedup
+  in dep generation by removing all external app calls. Moved KVERS to
+  portage to make it persistent during dep calls. Other code moved into
+  conditionals based on $*!=depend. chmod's swaped with umask.
+
+  11 Jan 2003; Jack Morgan <jmorgan@gentoo.org> cnf/make.conf.sparc:
+  updated make.conf.sparc to add CFLAGS for sparc32 and sparc64
+
+  08 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> bin/g-cpan.pl:
+  Added from bug 3450 -- Creates and merges perl module ebuilds on-the-fly
+  from cpan and merges them.
+
+  08 Jan 2003; Mark Guertin <gerk@gentoo.org> cnf/make.conf.ppc:
+  updated make.conf.ppc to remove G3 options for CFLAGS and other
+  small tweaks
+
+*portage-2.0.47 (06 Jan 2003): UserPriv
+
+  06 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  Forced HOME to BUILD_PREFIX regardless of user. Added in a 'rm -Rf' notice
+  to readonly-fs/Full-Disk notices. Disabled the usepkg on buildpkg function
+  of portage. digraph.hasallzeros() added -- Determines if tree is zero depth.
+  
+  06 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> cnf/*: Added in the
+  PORT_LOGDIR option and description. Also added a GENTOO_MIRRORS section
+  back into the make.conf* files so that users are aware that they need to
+  specify ibiblio. Killed the linefeeds in the sparc conf.
+
+  06 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: options and
+  actions fixup. Added new short options and long options. --buildpkgonly
+  now works and restricts the process to deplists of zero depth. Updated
+  the help for portage, and created a seperate shorthelp function with
+  the terse, options-only, versions of the regular help. Fixed the env_update
+  call after --fetchonly runs.
+
+  06 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh:
+  touchups to the user priv and logging code to kill the invalid user
+  messages when portage:portage doesn't exist on the system.
+
+*portage-2.0.47_pre4 (03 Jan 2003): UserPriv Works + Per-Ebuild logging
+
+  04 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  tokenize() fixups to remedy the || reduce problems. 
+
+  04 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> prepall:
+  Fixup for '//' problem.
+
+  03 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh:
+  Support for per-ebuild logging via PORT_LOGDIR variable. ebuild.sh
+  now can do usermode compiles _and_ maintain the enviroment with a
+  few minor restrictions like changing portage variables.
+
+*portage-2.0.47_pre3 (02 Jan 2003): Forward port of fixes & New fixes
+
+  02 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
+  tbz2 handling improved -- checks current, pkgdir/All/x, pkgdir/x.
+  -r0 removal on current ver to stop people from complaining about it.
+  More info added to 'emerge info' output.
+
+  02 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  Spaces in filenames fix for prelink-capable systems. Exception caused
+  by invalid or unsatisfiable '||' dependancies caught and warned about.
+  auxdbkey order fix. dbcachedir now ensures a '/' before the cache dir.
+
+  02 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> prep*:
+  Fixes from Azarah to make the included files more proper.
+
+  26 Dec 2002; Phil Bordelon <sunflare@gentoo.org> man/emerge.1:
+  Added documentation of the --deep option.
+
+*portage-2.0.46-r5 (30 Dec 2002): Touchups and sparc confs
+
+  30 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *:
+  fix for prelink unmerge problems. small touches to outputs.
+  sparc configs added. Azarah's fixups for the prep* scripts.
+  Changes to 'emerge info' output. tbz2 prefixes PKGDIR/All if the
+  tbz2 doesn't exist in the current dir.
+
+*portage-2.0.46-r3 (24 Dec 2002): Backport of fixes in 2.0.47_pre2
+
+*portage-2.0.47_pre2 (24 Dec 2002): Feature: userpriv compiles
+
+  Tokenizer fixup courtasy of Evgeny Roubinchtein. unalias -a in ebuild.sh.
+  Moved the help() to emergehelp.py. prepallman fixup for missed symlinks.
+  More info provided for portage-user-missing message. FEATURES=sandboxuser
+  not provides sandbox in compile phase along with userpriv. mtimedb
+  exception should actually be caught now.
+  
+*portage-2.0.47_pre1 (21 Dec 2002): Feature: userpriv compiles
+
+  21 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *:
+  ebuild.sh: portage user setup. dyn_setup is always run before calls to
+  unpack,compile,install. emerge: infodirs cleanup, traceback on invalid
+  dir fix. Proper regen on info change. portage.py: uid/gid discovery and
+  check code. PRELINK_PATH and PRELINK_PATH_MASK added and renamed. Made
+  HOME set to BUILD_PREFIX when HOME is unset. Patched in UserPriv compile
+  code and checks and complaints to ensure smooth integration. Reorganized
+  chown calls to ensure things get set right for userpriv and not. Sandbox:
+  UID check to prevent non-root errors patched in.
+
+*portage-2.0.46-r2 (18 Dec 2002): Feature Stable Release Prelink + Bug Fixes
+
+  18 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge:
+  Traceback fix for blocking packages in the restart check in emerge. Added
+  missing import for commands in portage.py.
+
+*portage-2.0.46 (18 Dec 2002): Feature Stable Release Prelink + Bug Fixes
+
+  18 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  PRELINK_MASK adds ignore paths for prelink.conf. Error message
+  adjustments for appearance/readability. auxdbkey changes.
+
+  18 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
+  --changelog displays changelogs of packages on update. gcc version
+  fix for --version. Missing indent in masked output corrected. Some
+  color additions. Prelink code removed -- Users can do it instead.
+
+  18 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh:
+  use_{enable,with}() work now. Rearranged auxdbkeys again.
+  
+  17 Dec 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> bin/ebuild.sh:
+  Regenerate /lib/cpp and /usr/bin/cc in pkg_setup if they are not
+  files to ease the broken pkg_postrm() some gcc have.
+
+*portage-2.0.46_pre2 (15 Dec 2002): Feature Prerelease: prelink
+
+  15 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge/portage.py:
+  Fixups. PRELINK_MASK code. 'prelink -af' in post_emerge().
+
+  15 Dec 2002; Mark Guertin <gerk@gentoo.org> cnf.make.conf.ppc:
+  updated incorrect CFLAG option and appended -mabi=altivec info
+
+*portage-2.0.46_pre1 (15 Dec 2002): Feature Prerelease: prelink
+
+  15 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Counter
+  fixups. Prelink code.
+
+  15 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> bin/f*: Made them
+  loop over multiple files instead of just doing one.
+
+  13 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge/portage.py:
+  Added disabled prelink code. Needs a little more work. Gave portage the
+  ability to restart on upgrades to the portage version. Ebuilds for prior
+  versions will intentionally die on upgrade. USE=build disables it so
+  bootstrap isn't affected.
+
+*portage-2.0.45-r5 (13 Dec 2002): Feature addition: PDEPEND+fixes
+
+  13 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge/portage.py:
+  Added restart on portage upgrade code and adjusted ebuild to accomplish
+  this until version matches -r5.
+
+*portage-2.0.45-r4 (11 Dec 2002): Feature addition: PDEPEND
+
+  11 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh/portage.py:
+  Added [CDEPEND, PDEPEND, REBUILD] to auxdbkeys and updated ebuild.sh.
+  Prevented autoclean on fetchonly.
+  
+  11 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
+  Added support for PDEPEND. Rewrote some dep handling variables for
+  readability and ease of use.
+
+*portage-2.0.45-r3 (09 Dec 2002): Touchups.
+
+  09 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Fixed
+  use_enable() and use_with() so that they actually work -- also don't
+  have to specify 2nd parameter, 1st is assumed. 
+  
+  09 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Added previous
+  version/downgrade messages to --pretend. Extra message to notify of dep
+  calculation failure as bad deps can exit portage without error.
+
+  09 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Attempt
+  at fixing the sandbox-crashes-missing-HOME bug. Added a try/catch around
+  the virts/'del x' code to prevent tracebacks on boxes without a virtuals
+  file.
+
+  06 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Fixed 'xfrom'
+  variable-used-before-assignment message on masked ebuilds.
+
+  06 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Disabled
+  writes to DBs when sandbox is enabled.
+
+  03 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixed a
+  nice bug where python was writing 'L' at the end of long() types for
+  mtimes.
+
+*portage-2.0.45 (02 Dec 2002): More bug fixes for stable.
+
+  02 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py, output.py:
+  Added several color options and functions to output.py. 'DO NOT EDIT'
+  notices added to .env generated profile settings files. Touchups and
+  nofetch() call for restricted fetches. Moved some file IO code for
+  SLOTs into a try/catch. { mtimedb fixups. Eclass aux_get() error fix.
+  aux_get() error fix via try/catch with magically-missing ebuild when
+  doing stat on it. Enabled full eclass()/inherit code. Added code to
+  flushmtimedb() entries by key name. } <-- aux_get() fixups. Made
+  starttime into a long... time.time() is apparently overflowing int().
+  
+  02 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> bin/*:
+  prep*: Fixed missed man pages and corrected loops to be fairly complete
+  in the included files. quickpkg: Loop to do each in $@ (Peter Sharp).
+
+  02 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
+  Yank '++' from searches and make it '\+\+' so that it works. Reformated
+  'all ebuilds are masked' message to be a little more obvious. env_update()
+  AFTER autoclean... not in autoclean -- Fixes ldconfig issues. Typo fixes.
+
+  02 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh:
+  Added has(), general use()-like function -- 'has this_thing $VAR' returns
+  shell true or false. Added has_version(), portage call to determine if
+  a specified DEPEND-atom is installed -- 'has_version ">=mozilla-1.2"'
+  returns shell true or false. Added best_version(), portage call to
+  get the best/most-recently-merged version of a DEPEND-atom statement --
+  'best_version ">=mozilla-1.0"' prints a string. pkg_nofetch() displays
+  SRC_URIs by default on RESTRICT -- Can be redefined to display custom
+  messages. die() on unpack() failure added. Courtasy of SpanKY: Added
+  use_with() and use_enable() for --with-thing and --enable-thing.
+  'use_with gd libgd' would print --with-libgd if gd was in USE and
+  --without-libgd if not.
+
+  19 Nov 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> cnf/etc-update.conf:
+  Add 'menu' config item and note about it needing dev-utils/dialog, as
+  a lot of users do not know about this nifty feature.
+
+  14 Nov 2002; Phil Bordelon <sunflare@gentoo.org> man/emerge.1:
+  Cleaned up the more recent edits to the man page to more closely
+  match the previous format, fix various typos, and so on.  Expanded
+  the REPORTING BUGS section, and made the PACKAGE MASKING part of the
+  NOTES a stand-alone section.
+
+*portage-2.0.44 (11 Nov 2002): bug fixes and 1.2 rescue/install setup
+
+  11 Nov 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *:
+  bin/*: fixes for spaces-in-filename issues, lots of quotes added. conf/*:
+  touched up comments and warning. Added RSYNC_RETRIES.  ebuild.sh: exit now
+  reports the failing ebuild's $CATEGORY/$PF. Added EXTRA_ECONF to econf().
+  emake: added EXTRA_EMAKE. emerge: RSYNC_RETRIES curtasy of Christopher
+  Sharp. Random comment fixes. portage.py: Random touchups. KV extraction
+  fixup for new ROOTs. ARCH missing in profile fix. Fix for packages/All
+  missing dir traceback. INFOPATH/INFODIR fix. Added INFOPATH to specials.
+  portage.py: Touchups to the mtimedb-touching code. Fixes for the broken
+  os.path.normpath() leading '//' bug. Added a modified chuck of Phoen][x's
+  dist size patch.
+
+  09 Nov 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  Fixups for KV.
+
+  08 Nov 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
+  Fix for missing-glibc-bug in --version.
+
+  08 Nov 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  Fix for cfgdictfile traceback when ROOT != '/'. Fix for missing kernel
+  headers -- checks usr/src/linux, then /usr/include, then if merging
+  from sys-kernel ignore error.
+
+  07 Nov 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  Fix (part 2) for the USE="-*" arch-missing problem.
+
+  03 Nov 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  eclass() function uses a caching and cPickle storing method to determine
+  currency of eclass-derived depcache entries. All previous methods are
+  already removed. eclass_save() is called via store() now. Stripped some
+  cruft from aux_get(). Error message touchups.
+
+  03 Nov 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
+  A couple message touchups.
+
+  29 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
+  Moved the autoclean section under the --pretend check so it doesn't flip
+  out when running '-f'. Preliminary support for binary-only methods.
+  --usepkgonly (implies --usepkg) to force errors is binaries don't exist.
+
+  27 Oct 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> new*: changed "&&" to "||"
+  to provide even better protection against mis-use of these commands.
+
+*portage-2.0.43 (27 Oct 2002): Bug fix release
+
+  27 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
+  AUTOCLEAN="yes" on by default. Added in a clean phase after the merge
+  phase so clashing library versions do not remain installed when ldconfig
+  is run. This should close up the symlinks-being-removed bugs.
+  
+  27 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> cnf/*:
+  Miscelaneous typo fixes. Added PORTDIR_OVERLAY description in make.conf.
+
+  26 Oct 2002; J Robert Ray <jrray@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  Don't act like the download failed if after successfully downloading
+  a file its size doesn't match the file size in the digest.  Treat
+  this as a mismatched digest condition instead.
+
+  26 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  Reversed the defaults on env_update() so it does a full ldconfig instead
+  of a non-symlink ldconfig. Fixed the typo in the 'invalid conf' notices.
+
+*portage-2.0.42 (24 Oct 2002): Bug fix release
+
+  24 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> make.defaults.5:
+  Removed this file. It is horribly out of date and completely
+  wrong to boot. Users shouldn't be modifying the 3 lines in this file
+  anyway. They are obvious if you understand conf and defaults.
+
+  24 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
+  Added missing return statements to select_dep() that caused unmet packages
+  to be ignored. Touchups to 'emerge info' and 'emerge --version' output.
+  Added --delete to --delete-after so that it actually deletes in rsync.
+
+  24 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  Warning touchups. Replaced constants (9) to index("INHERITED").
+
+  23 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> bin/new*:
+  Fix for "running as a root user" bug... code does 'rm -rf /' if
+  variables aren't defined in environment... That's a bad thing.
+
+  23 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  Possible fix for the aux_get() issues and IUSE.
+
+  22 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  noauto got lost in some weird conflicts of .38, added it back.
+
+  22 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
+  Primitive logging via emergelog(). countdown(N,str) function does N second
+  countdowns of the action 'str'. Error messages on dependency traceback
+  via try/except on select_dep(). Removed the 'unavailable' warning. Message
+  updates. Added logging of basic actions to /var/log/emerge.log. Added
+  package/to-go counter. 'emerge info' displays a number of useful variables
+  that is good for bug reports.
+
+  22 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> prepallstrip:
+  Bug 9508, fix for MSB architectures strip. Previous check assumed only
+  LSB objects could/should be stripped. (*LSB -> *SB) [Joky@#gentoo-sparc]
+
+*portage-2.0.41 (20 Oct 2002): Bug fix release
+
+  20 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  stickies=[] lists the variables that will be kept/used as sticky vars,
+  not yet implimented. Fixed several relative symlink bugs by adding
+  abssymlink() to portage to determine real/absolute targets. env_update()
+  modified to fix bug 9308 symlinks bug. Bug 8348, request for error messages
+  instead of tracebacks/dies on parse errors, now caught on a per file basis
+  for system config files, includes descriptive messages. Fix for missing
+  profile traceback in new prepend'd-arch code. Typo fixes in symlink code.
+  DISABLED 'KEYWORD="" == available' code, DEFAULT IS MASKED NOW. Major
+  update to masking code, CONFIG_PROTECT can be layered with _MASKs, and
+  update_protect() now sets the self.protect* variables. Condensed and
+  reordered the unmerge code, now checks existance, cfgprotect, then mtimes.
+
+  20 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
+  Bug 8767: Added 'buildpkg' to FEATURES to specify always-buildpkg.
+  Updated the --version output to display profile and gcc version.
+  Bug 8083: Eliminate spinner when terminal is not a tty. Bug 7688:
+  fixed search vs. searchdesc differences by adding 'cat/pack' split.
+  Bug 9308: Symlinks were being killed by ldconfig, fixed by changing
+  how/when ldconfig was allowed to set symlinks.  rsync command touchups,
+  --delete-after so that a failed rsync won't leave a user
+  without/with-few packages in portage.  More warnings to depclean.
+
+  20 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh:
+  Added die to gzip in unpack()
+
+  20 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> make.conf*:
+  Added in useful variables and descriptions+warnings of their uses.
+
+  20 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> make.globals*:
+  Added in large "do not edit" message.
+
+  16 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  Fixed an mtimes issue. --update on a package might yank non-cfgprot
+  files during the clean-phase because they didn't have mtimes updated.
+
+  15 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  Added 'IUSE' to the auxdbkey list. Fixed random aux_get() errors
+  caused by random empty files in the dep cache.
+
+  15 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh
+  Actually committed the --host portion of econf.
+
+  15 Oct 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> portage.py, missingos.c:
+  Remove testsandbox.sh, and comment code in portage.py that still
+  used it to no real use.  Add another '\' to the 'missingos_mknod__doc__'
+  string in src/python-missingos/missingos.c to fix failure with gcc-3.3.
+
+*portage-2.0.40 (13 Sep 2002): Bug fix release
+
+  15 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge:
+  emerge depclean -- Removes all packages that are not explicitly or
+  dependency merged.
+
+  15 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh:
+  depend now prints IUSE. Doesn't do anything with it yet.
+  unpack() -- unzip silently overwrites files ().
+  econf() -- now specifies '--host=${CHOST}'
+
+  15 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> make.globals:
+  Touch ups + warning.
+
+  15 Oct 2002; Brandon Low <lostlogic@gentoo.org> etc-update:
+  Make etc-update find all the same CONFIG_PROTECT files as portage
+  by importing it's settings from portage.
+
+*portage-2.0.39 (13 Sep 2002): Bug fix release
+
+  13 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  Bug 5926 -- If the fetchonly AND pretend flags are specified, then
+  portage should give a list of all the SRC_URIs so that they can be
+  downloaded or sent into another app. Made sandbox display name in
+  'ps' as '[$PF] sandbox'.
+
+  13 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
+  Bug 5926 -- See portage.py for today. (emerge -pf)
+  Typo fixes.
+
+  13 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh:
+  Added -q to unzip to make it quiet like the others.
+  Bug 6033 -- Fix for infinate loop in eclasses in portage overlay.
+
+  12 Oct 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fix for
+  doebuild() so that our rsync mirror will contain full digests and not just
+  partial digests for x86.
+
+  12 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
+  Added --progress to rsync. This puts the file progress meters
+  back on. Users have requested this, and it's not detrimental.
+  Just creates a lot of output, as the man page says: "It gives
+  bored users something to look at."
+
+  12 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  Bug 6361 -- Added checking on directories to ensure that we can
+  write to them before we try and traceback. Also added pieces to
+  functions so that return conditions are propagated back to emerge
+  so that it actually dies on errors. Message on condition details
+  restart process.
+
+  11 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> make*globals:
+  Removed the tomcat configs from CONFIG_PROTECT
+
+  11 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> doman:
+  Bug 8208 -- Added flags and auto-location support for 'x' manpages.
+  Added not-an-man-page message.
+
+  11 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> dohtml:
+  Bug 8208 -- Added 'js' to the include list, and added '-A' as an
+  append flag. '-a' was a filter-down-to.
+
+  11 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  Bug 8964 -- Fix for read-only traceback in digestgen().
+  Bug 8949 -- Fix for read-only traceback in doebuild()
+  Bug 8284 -- Prepend ARCH _after_ use order processing. Prevents -*
+  from killing the ARCH flag. Bug 7596 -- Set an mtime of 0 into
+  CONTENTS if the file already exists on the FS. Allows the entry
+  to be in the CONTENTS file. Condensed the protect/protect-mask
+  code into one function in class dblink. Revised code to allow
+  multi-level protects and masks.
+
+  10 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
+  Bug 8552 -- typo fixes
+
+  10 Oct 2002; Mark Guertin <gerk@gentoo.org> cnf/make.conf.ppc :
+  Fixed type in reccomended CFLAGS for generic ppc (was 02, corrected 
+  to O2)
+
+  09 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  Fixed a bug where files less than 2 characters in /etc/env.d
+  weren't checked correctly, and tracebacked env_update()
+
+  07 Oct 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh:
+  Also set $TMP, as MDK among distros sets this, and it causes
+  breakage during bootstrap.  This should close bug #8101.
+
+  07 Oct 2002; Mark Guertin <gerk@gentoo.org> man/ebuild.5 :
+  Updated the man page to include missing functions in portage
+
+  05 Oct 2002; Mark Guertin <gerk@gentoo.org> cnf/make.conf cnf/make.conf.ppc:
+  Fixed typo (missing "/") in make.conf and make.conf.ppc, bug #7944
+
+  28 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: remove
+  deprecated "ld.so" from newdepend.
+
+*portage-2.0.38 (25 Sep 2002): Bug fix release 
+
+  25 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: now "emerge world"
+  and "emerge system" don't replace packages. This closes bug #8282.
+  
+  21 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage-2.0.38.ebuild:
+  Added additional perm check for /var/cache/edb/dep dirs and fixed perm
+  settings in the ebuild's pkg_postinst(); this should close bug #7719.
+  
+  21 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added
+  carpaski's patch to add PF to the sandbox's argv[0], closing bug #8141.
+
+  19 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: tweaked emerge so
+  that "--pretend" displays don't show "N" all the time.
+
+  19 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: tweaked help to
+  not list deprecated options.
+
+  25 Sep 2002; Maik Schreiber <blizzy@gentoo.org> cnf/make.globals,
+  cnf/make.globals.ppc: Added /opt/jakarta/tomcat/conf to CONFIG_PROTECT. Note
+  by drobbins: this will be removed soon when this gets moved to an /etc/env.d
+  file in the tomcat package.
+
+*portage-2.0.37 (19 Sep 2002): Gentoo Linux 1.4_rc1 version 
+
+  10 Sep 2002; Mark Guertin <gerk@gentoo.org> cnf/make.conf.ppc : Backed down
+  CFLAGS from -O3 to -O2 on ppc as -O3 has proven to be unreliable on all
+  PowerPC-based machines
+
+  09 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: new parameterized
+  create() engine, security pass fixes ("emerge" as non-root doesn't print
+  "root access required" but shows help instead), emerge --pretend output fixes
+  ("to /" lines are dropped and only displayed if installation root != "/".)
+  New (and currently unofficial and undocumented) "--deep" and "--selective"
+  options that correspond to their respective create() parameters. Using
+  "--deep" will enable "deep emerging" -- updating all deps even if the parent
+  doesn't need updating. The new parametrized create() is also much cleaner
+  than the previous incarnation.
+  
+  09 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: os.chdir() ->
+  chdir() fix, enhanced fetch() digest corruption handling.
+
+  06 Sep 2002; Mark Guertin <gerk@gentoo.org> cnf/make.globals.ppc :
+  Updated make.globals.ppc to reflect new CFLAGS for 1.4 release
+
+*portage-2.0.36 (04 Sep 2002): Gentoo Linux 1.4_rc1 version 
+
+  04 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: "--onlydeps" was
+  mostly broken since the most recent emerge code restructure. Now fixed,
+  closing bug #7442.
+  
+  04 Sep 2002: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> etc-update.conf: added
+  missing etc-update config file.
+  
+  04 Sep 2002: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: removed error
+  detection based on return value for pkg_preinst() and friends when called
+  from merge() and unmerge(), since the value can be unreliable due to the &&
+  shell construct, depmod -a returning a non-zero value, etc. Also fixed
+  env_update() to treat CONFIG_PROTECT and CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK correctly.
+
+*portage-2.0.35 (03 Sep 2002) 
+
+  03 Sep 2002: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> etc-update,
+  man/etc-update.1: new program for updating config files.
+  
+  03 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: upgraded
+  inherit() to support $PORTDIR_OVERLAY, closing bug #6033.
+  
+  03 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: calls to "cvs" now
+  use "-z3" compression option, closing bug #5982.
+  
+  03 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: symlinks to
+  .tbz2's in the $PKGDIR/All directory (from $PKGDIR/$CATEGORY) are now
+  relative, closing bug #6881.
+
+  03 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: einstall now
+  sees "GNUmakefile", closing bug #4895.
+  
+  03 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: typo fixes,
+  closing bug #7263.
+
+  03 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: /var/tmp
+  creation now works even if /tmp already exists, closing bug #7376.
+  
+  02 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: fixed a logic error
+  that resulted in non-root emerge failure. This closes bug #7389.
+
+*portage-2.0.34 (01 Sep 2002) 
+
+  01 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py, ebuild.sh:
+  Azarah's ebuildsh() removed, various other little fixes like pkg_preinst and
+  friends not dying on non-zero return codes.
+  
+  01 Sep 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: add a custom
+  version of the esyslog() function to fix the "Red Star" bug if no logger is
+  running.
+
+*portage-2.0.33_p1 (30 Aug 2002): urgent fix
+
+  31 Aug 2002; Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: comment out the if
+  clause that only executed inherit() conditional on $PORTAGE_RESTORE_ENV. It
+  didn't work and broke portage 2.0.33 as far as inheriting ebuilds goes.
+
+*portage-2.0.33 (30 Aug 2002) 
+
+  30 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> : some additional clean-ups
+  for the make.conf(.ppc) files.
+  
+  30 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: emerge search would
+  die when aux_get() raised a KeyError; we now catch and handle this exception.
+  This closes bug #7280.
+  
+  29 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fixed typo in
+  move_ent() code that messed up moving packages into previously non-existant
+  category directories in /var/db/pkg.
+  
+  30 Aug 2002; Mark Guertin <gerk@gentoo.org> cnf/make.conf.ppc : Updated
+  cnf/make.conf.ppc with new CFLAGS for 1.4 release
+
+*portage-2.0.32 (29 Aug 2002)  
+  
+  29 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: favorites weren't
+  working since 2.0.30; they're working again now. This closes bug #7225.
+
+  29 Aug 2002; Phil Bordelon <sunflare@gentoo.org> emerge.1: Added a small
+  blurb regarding what to do when emerge --update [world|system] fails because
+  of new features such as || and ?.  Hopefully this will assuage the fairly
+  common questions regarding this.
+
+*portage-2.0.31 (29 Aug 2002)
+
+  28 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fixed a config
+  file protection logic bug detected and identified by Azarah. It basically
+  broke most config file updates and has been broken for around six months.
+  Very surprised no one had encountered this issue before.
+  
+  28 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: improved error
+  messages when an unsatisfiable dependency is encountered. Now lets you know
+  if there are masked packages that would satisfy the dep.
+  
+  28 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: emerging .tbz2
+  packages and .ebuilds by name now works; this was broken in 2.0.30.
+
+*portage-2.0.30 (28 Aug 2002)
+
+  28 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: rewrote
+  gettimeval() as cpv_counter() and updated it to handle corrupt COUNTER files,
+  closing bug #6763.
+  
+  28 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: "emerge search" now
+  displays information for masked packages if possible, closing bug #6823.
+  
+  28 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: fixed an old gbevin
+  bug where "emerge search" wouldn't show packages whose version string was
+  only one character long, ie. "foo-3". This closes bug #6800.
+  
+  28 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: added a missing
+  call to flatten() in dep_check(), allowing recursive sublists in dependencies
+  and SRC_URI variables to work; this closes bugs #7104, #7116, #7122.
+  
+  28 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> doman: fixed some typos,
+  closing bug #7152.
+  
+  28 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: major
+  work to emerge: reworked the internal code organization to make depgraph code
+  easier to understand; unified two code paths so that ebuild/.tbz2 choices
+  when "--usepkg" should now be eternally consistent; tweaked portage.py so
+  that dep_expand()'s dbapi argument is optional. In the process of all this,
+  isolated and fixed bug #4508.
+  
+  27 Aug 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> portage.py: if the dep
+  cache is stale, it is possible that aux_get() will call doebuild(depend) to
+  regenerate it again.  This call will cause $T to be set to "", which will
+  break anything that needs $T to be set to a writable location inside the
+  sandbox, so we need to set $T to a valid value again.
+
+  27 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: improved error
+  handling/detection of bad pkgsplit() and catpkgsplit() calls; should close
+  bug #6803, #6853.
+  
+  26 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: fix so that "emerge
+  prune rsync" doesn't complain that you are trying to rsync and prune at the
+  same time. This closes bug #6785.
+  
+  26 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> doman fixes; should work
+  for pre-gzipped man-pages and man-pages with multiple "."s in their name.
+  Closes bugs #6770, #6917
+  
+  25 Aug 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> emerge: fixed an
+  indentation problem of the 'else:' at line 1304. 
+
+  20 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: removed stray
+  "DEBUG:" output, closing bug #6732.
+
+*portage-2.0.29 (18 Aug 2002)
+
+  18 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge, portage.py,
+  ebuild.sh: making some effort to make output cleaner and less cluttered,
+  particularly with error handling.
+  
+  18 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: updated so that
+  "emerge --inject foo-1.0" fails instead of injecting "null/foo-1.0"; fixed
+  error in help; "emerge --inject" and "emerge" with no specified files or
+  package classes prints out a small warning and exits. Closes bug #6353.
+  
+  18 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: movefile()
+  didn't like bind mounts due to a peculiar quality -- according to their
+  ST_DEV stat() information, they are on the same filesystem, so rename()
+  should work, but it doesn't. We now fall back to copy if rename() doesn't
+  work. Closes bug #6468.
+  
+  18 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: made significant
+  enhancements and fixes to ebuild.sh's error-handling code. Errors in
+  src_unpack(), src_compile(), src_install() and others should now be correctly
+  detected. Also downgraded our use() function since we are not implementing
+  extended USE functionality. Closes bug #6393.
+  
+  18 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: portdb's
+  cp_all() now skips "CVS" directories, closing bug #6662. 
+ 
+  18 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: aux_get():
+  exception handler to print informative message when encountering wacky cache
+  entries that we just can't fix (for some reason.)
+ 
+  17 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: removed
+  deprecated "ld.so" dependency from Dan Armak's newdepend() function.
+  
+  17 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: doebuild()
+  running in "depend" mode will set $T to "" to prevent a parent's $T from
+  being inherited; this is important when we run custom portage code from
+  inside an ebuild (such as pkg_postinst)... it allows dep caching to not
+  break. Closes bug #6484.
+
+*portage-2.0.28 (17 Aug 2002)
+
+  16 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: return errors when
+  two actions like "world" and "system" are specified on the command-line, or
+  when "system" or "world" are combined with package names. Closes bug #6492.
+  
+  16 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: bad string was
+  causing pkg_prerm() and pkg_postrm() to not be called; now fixed.  This
+  closes bug #6493.
+  
+  16 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: now calls
+  env-update() after an unmerge() run (to fix library paths, links, etc.)
+  Closes bug #6511.
+  
+  16 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> doman: now handles already-
+  gzipped man pages correctly, closing bug #6544.
+  
+  16 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: fixed a bug where a
+  dep specified on the command-line with --usepkg would use an old package if
+  it happened to match the dep. Now, it will use the ebuild instead, just like
+  how deps of deps are treated.
+
+*portage-2.0.27 (06 Aug 2002)
+
+  07 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: removed some
+  beta extended USE functionality to speed up regenerate(); as we are likely
+  not going to need extended USE for a good while.
+  
+  07 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: ebuild.sh now
+  supports "config" (pkg_config) again.
+
+  06 Aug 2002; Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: change debug-print()
+  to exit if $T is not defined, i.e. if emerge is running in dependency
+  detection mode and isn't actually emerging everything. This fixes bug #4932
+  (the "eclass-debug.log is created in /" problem).
+
+  06 Aug 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Fixed a
+  case-check problem that prevented tar.Z from being un-tar'd. This closes bug
+  #6126.
+
+  06 Aug 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> portage.py, ebuild.sh:
+  Remove "setup" from 'sandboxactive' in portage.py, as we are not running
+  pkg_setup() in a sandbox anymore.  Move the restoring of the old env code
+  to be the first thing in ebuild.sh, just to ensure we dont mess anything
+  up when greping/awking during saving it.
+
+*portage-2.0.26 (06 Aug 2002)
+
+  06 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: on unmerge,
+  entries are now removed from the world file if 1) the dependency refers to
+  the cat/pkg being unmerged, and 2) the dependency matches the current version
+  being unmerged, and 3) unmerging this package will leave no other packages on
+  this system that will match this world entry.  This closes bug #3409.
+  
+  06 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: new global
+  update support.  You can now add an entry to a file in
+  /usr/portage/profiles/updates/, something like "move x11-base/xfree
+  x11-base/xfree86".  Portage will then update the /var/db/pkg db on user's
+  boxes so that any xfree packages are renamed to xfree86; it will also update
+  the world and virtuals files appropriately.  We are naming the update files
+  "3Q-2002", etc.  -- for third quarter in 2002.  This way, we don't bog
+  Portage down by having it run through all our directives.  It will only look
+  at update files whose mtimes have changed.  Closes bug #4753, #5463, 
+  
+  06 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: tweaked Azarah's
+  environment-saving patch to not be enabled when $T is not defined -- this
+  closes bug #6070 and should speed up dep calculations too.  Also tweaked
+  ebuild.sh so that pkg_setup() is run *outside* of the sandbox.  This is
+  important because piping stuff around tends to require temp files to be
+  created; pkg_setup() being in the sandbox prevents this from happening.
+  
+  06 Aug 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh : Unset
+  esave_ebuild_env in esave_ebuild_env(), otherwise the sourced copy messes
+  saving of the environment.
+  
+  05 Aug 2002; Phil Bordelon <sunflare@gentoo.org> emerge.1: Updated the man
+  page to match the current version of 2.0.25.
+  
+  05 Aug 2002; Phil Bordelon <sunflare@gentoo.org> emerge.1: Updated the man
+  page to match the current version of 2.0.25.
+
+*portage-2.0.25 (05 Aug 2002)
+
+  05 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> src/sandbox/Makefile:
+  removed -march=i386 added in Azarah's patch; breaks things for PPC, Sparc.
+  
+  05 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: logic error fix for
+  description searching, closing bug #6031.
+
+*portage-2.0.24 (04 Aug 2002)
+
+  04 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> output.py, emerge: rewrote
+  our output.py module (it was weird) and tweaked emerge so that colorization
+  will be disabled if NOCOLOR is set to "yes" or "true" *or* if sys.stdout isn't
+  a tty.  This means that if you pipe things to "less", colorization will get
+  automatically disabled.  Yay!  This closes bug #5714, 
+  
+  04 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: default
+  src_compile now properly uses "die" instead of "return 1."  This closes bug
+  #2981.
+  
+  04 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: "=foo/bar-1.0*"
+  now matches "foo/bar-1.0_{alpha|beta|pre|rc}{int}" but not
+  "foo/bar-1.1_{alpha_beta_pre_rc}{int}".  This closes bug #5874; gcc-3.2_pre
+  is now considered a "3.2" rather than a very late "3.1" when doing "*"
+  matching.
+  
+  04 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Applied
+  carpaski's patch to allow "unpack" to also handle regular .gz or .bz2 files;
+  in which case the unpacked files are placed directly in ${WORKDIR}.  Closing
+  bug #5867.
+
+  04 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: tweaked
+  exithandler() to only do its sandbox clean-up if we happen to be the root
+  user.  Closes bug #5859.
+
+  04 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: search now lists
+  masked packages correctly.  Closes bug #5854 (pending QA verification.)
+  
+  04 Aug 2002; Phil Bordelon <sunflare@lsu.edu> emerge.1: The emerge man page
+  now reflects the fact that emerge sync|rsync always does a --clean now.  Also
+  bumped the release number to 2.0.23.
+
+  03 Aug 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge.sh,
+  sandbox.c libsandbox.c: Updated sandbox.c and libsandbox.c to use an internal
+  env variable, $SANDBOX_ACTIVE to determine if sandbox should really be active
+  or not.  With it only checking $SANDBOX_ON, some instances NOT running in a
+  sandbox, but that set SANDBOX_ON while an actual sandbox was running, caused
+  the sandbox to activate for this process.  Added in support for a more phased
+  calls to ebuild.sh again.  This is this time done with support to save the
+  current environment of ebuild.sh to the next call that should handle problems
+  with pkg_setup() setting env variables.  Closes bugs #5853, #5817, #5950.
+
+*portage-2.0.23 (01 Aug 2002)
+
+  01 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  ${ROOT}var/cache/edb and friends will get created if they don't exist,
+  closing bug #5813.
+  
+  01 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: rewrote the emerge
+  search code, making it fully API-compliant and much more streamlined and
+  compact.  This rewrite should fix the problem where emerge search doesn't
+  support Portage overlays (bug #5783.)
+  
+  31 Jul 2002; Phil Bordelon <sunflare@gentoo.org> emerge.1: Documented the
+  fact that emerge clean does not remove unslotted ebuilds.  Bumped the man
+  page revision number to 2.0.22.
+
+*portage-2.0.22 (29 Jul 2002)
+
+  29 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fetch() didn't
+  handle resuming downloads properly when the first attempt aborted
+  prematurely.  The fall back to the alternate location would not resume the
+  download.  This should now be fixed.  Closes bug #5655.
+  
+  29 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, ebuild.sh: I
+  had some code in spawn() from one of Azarah's patches that I forgot to
+  remove; it caused the sandbox to be disabled all the time.  I removed this
+  code, and then I tweaked ebuild.sh so that the sandbox runs in a "deny by
+  default" configuration.  Before, you could add lines to the main ebuild
+  (outside of a function) and it would bypass the sandbox; no more.  Closes
+  bugs #5740, #5744.
+  
+  29 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: --help and
+  --version now work for non-root users as they should.  --clean has been
+  deprecated.  This closes bug #5658.
+
+*portage-2.0.21 (28 Jul 2002)
+
+  28 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: Added
+  beta "Portage tree overlay" support.  By setting PORTDIR_OVERLAY to point to
+  a local directory tree, you can cause Portage to look for ebuilds in
+  PORTDIR_OVERLAY first before consulting the regular PORTDIR.  Using this
+  feature, it's possible to have your PORTDIR set up to rsync but still be able
+  to have locally-created ebuilds in your PORTDIR_OVERLAY tree.  For example,
+  you would place your ebuild in PORTDIR_OVERLAY/sys-apps/foo/.
+  
+  27 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: another
+  dep_opconvert() USE-handling bug-fix.  Working OK for Azarah now.
+  
+  27 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: small logic
+  error fix in dep_opconvert() to fix up USE handling.
+
+  27 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: security modes now
+  work correctly; root access now required for merging.  The new security pass
+  code was missing a check that is now present.
+
+*portage-2.0.20 (27 Jul 2002)
+
+  27 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge,
+  repoman: Rewrote a good deal of our dependency-checking code, including all
+  of dep_opconvert().  Results?  repoman will now auto-enable all USE variables
+  (even ! use variables will get enabled) resulting in thorough checks of all
+  specified dependencies.  DEPEND="foo? bar : oni" and DEPEND="foo? ( bar oni )
+  : ( meep barf )" now works correctly.  DEPEND="|| ( foo bar oni )" now works
+  correctly and will try to satisfy "foo" (the first package) if none are
+  installed.  DEPEND="!foo? ( bar )" now works correctly; it was not working
+  before.  This should generally mean that our dependency system is now working
+  as expected.
+  
+  27 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: changed
+  counter_tick() method so that bulk of code is in the counter_tick_code()
+  helper function; then created a new method for fakedbapi that calls
+  counter_tick().  This fixes "--emptytree" issues with emerge, since emerge
+  still expects counter_tick() to exist as a method.
+
+  27 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: removed
+  a DEBUG: print and a stray "raise IndexError" that I used for debugging.
+
+*portage-2.0.19 (26 Jul 2002)
+
+  26 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Portage is now
+  eclass-friendly when it comes to regenerating cache entries.  This closes bug
+  #4843.
+  
+  26 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: Closed
+  bug #5524.  Packages "emerge inject"ed will no longer get auto-cleaned
+  indiscriminantly.  Injected packages now have an official COUNTER so that
+  emerge clean doesn't get confused and schedule the package for removal.  Also
+  modularized and improved the counter-handling functions and changed the
+  counter update method so that systems with XFS filesystems that die
+  unexpectedly will no longer get corrupted COUNTER files.  This should solve
+  the an entire class of "my counter is corrupt" issues for XFS users.
+
+  26 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: added exception
+  handler to getcontents() so that it will gracefully ignore (with a warning)
+  corrupt CONTENTS file lines.  This closes bug #5464.
+  
+  26 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: fixed a single-line
+  indentation error that resulted in "emerge clean" ignoring some files.  This
+  closes bug #5597,#4364.
+  
+  25 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: --noreplace is now
+  off by default and works again; --onlydeps appears to be working again; and
+  merge() will merge things as specified in display(), which was not the case
+  before (I rolled 2.0.18 before fixing a few things I forgot about)
+
+*portage-2.0.18 (25 Jul 2002)
+
+  25 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Close bug
+  #5580; pkg_setup() now gets called during all build-related stages.
+  
+  24 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: rewrote
+  create() function, closing bug #5469.  Also added freeze() and melt() methods
+  to portdbapi to enhance performance.  create() is now extensively commented
+  and even understandable.
+  
+  24 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: the "rsync --clean"
+  option has been deprecated.  Cleaning is now on by default, closing bug
+  #5527.
+
+  24 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, make.globals:
+  It should now be safe to do what Spider did in the gconf ebuild and add
+  CONFIG_PROTECT and CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK to /etc/env.d entries.  Both variables
+  are now incremental, just like USE, and you can use "-path" to turn a path
+  off, or add CONFIG_PROTECT{_MASK}="path" to *add* a path to the list (this
+  will not overwrite "parent" settings.  Also added "/etc/env.d/" to
+  CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK in /etc/make.globals.  Also, very importantly, /etc/env.d
+  is now hard-coded into CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK as it was in earlier versions of
+  Portage and cannot be removed.
+  
+  24 Jul 2002: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge, portage.py: two
+  fixes; first, I removed xcache.p support from portage.py.  The code was
+  designed based on the false theory that directory mtimes are updated whenever
+  an object inside that directory is modified.  That is not the case -- it
+  happens when the directory listing itself changes.  Also fixed overly verbose
+  emerge merging error.
+  
+  23 Jul 2002; Phil Bordelon <sunflare@gentoo.org> emerge.1: Updated the man
+  page to match some changes in the latest version of portage, along with some
+  fixes recommended by drobbins.
+
+*portage-2.0.17 (23 Jul 2002)
+
+  23 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fixed a bug
+  pointed out by trance -- dep_nomatch() was still using the old (deleted)
+  match() function.  Now it's using a new match() method.
+
+*portage-2.0.16 (22 Jul 2002)
+
+  22 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: changed xcache
+  behavior so that the cache gets totally thrown away when the masks are
+  updated.  Also revamped carpaski's code so we can avoid loading xcache from
+  disk if we simply plan to throw it away.  This necessitated the creation of a
+  new file in /var/cache/edb: mtimes.  This file stores mtimes for various
+  important filesystem objects.  Also added support to not regenerate the GNU
+  info directory index if the mtime on /usr/share/info has not changed since
+  previous invocation.
+
+  22 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: moved
+  security handling code from emerge to portage.py; also moved group "wheel"
+  check to portage.py.  Added additional security checks and permissions fixes
+  to the cache handling functions.
+
+  22 Jul 2002: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: fixed a bug
+  reported by woodchip related to merging packages.  When using --usepkg, a
+  package wouldn't be used if there was a newer unmasked version of the ebuild
+  available, even if the package in question was the right selection.
+  
+  22 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: fixed create() code
+  and consolidated some functions.  My goal is to simplify the emerge code
+  until it's clean, at which point we can begin adding new features to emerge
+  like more SLOT-friendly decision making.
+
+  22 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: was able to
+  remove 130 or so lines of code by depreciating the match() function (replaced
+  by the match2() method.) I also rennovated the binarytree code to take
+  advantage of fakedbapi.
+
+  22 Jul 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: added the
+  xcache.p fix and updated the version to 2.0.16pre (from 2.0.12) -- Also added
+  in a try/except inside the store() (atexit) for xcache.p to give hints
+  instead of tracebacks.
+
+  22 Jul 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: added the
+  description searching code and added a spinner to the search.
+
+  21 Jul 2002; Phil Bordelon <sunflare@gentoo.org> emerge.1: Finished the
+  rewrite of the emerge man page.
+    
+  21 Jul 2002; Phil Bordelon <sunflare@gentoo.org> emerge: Readded the sync
+  help to the list of help options now that emerge --help sync works again.
+
+*portage-2.0.15 (16 Jul 2002)
+
+  15 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emake: no longer falls back
+  to plain old "make" if parallel make fails.  I believe it's best to fix the
+  problem (turn parallel make off in the ebuild) rather than tweak emake to
+  avoid it.
+  
+  15 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: rewrote some code,
+  cleaning things up and removing redundant functions.  Starting to
+  de-cruftify.
+
+  15 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: fix for permissions
+  when updating the cache using server-generated entries.
+
+*portage-2.0.14 (15 Jul 2002)
+  
+  15 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: ccache bug fix;
+  removed extra "!".  Ccache should now get enabled properly.  Also, INHERITED
+  variable is now getting added to the dep cache entries for future
+  eclass-friendly caching.
+  
+  15 Jul 2002: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Portage now
+  *persistently* caches xmatch() calculations.  This appears to speed things up
+  but we will need to limit the size of the new xcache.p in future versions of
+  Portage.
+
+  15 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: Portage
+  now has keyword-based masking enabled.  It also has server-side caching
+  enabled to eliminate "emerge pre-Calculating dependencies... delay" for
+  end-users.  There is now an undocumented "regen" option for emerge that tells
+  Portage to ensure that all entries in /var/cache/edb/dep are up-to-date.
+  This is intended mainly for developers, as the server-side caching feature
+  should ensure that all dep cache entries are up-to-date for end-users.
+
+  15 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> repoman: repoman now checks
+  for ebuilds that generate output as well as ebuilds that return a non-zero
+  error code when sourced.  For this test to detect all failures, you need to
+  wipe out your /var/cache/edb/dep/* before running repoman.  This design quirk
+  is necessary to preserve existing emerge behavior.
+
+  13 Jul 2002: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Removed
+  Azarah's ebuildsh() function as it breaks pkg_setup() again.  pkg_setup()
+  needs to be called as part of the same process as any other ebuil.sh command
+  so that environment vars set in pkg_setup() are preserved through the rest of
+  the build process.
+  
+  13 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: changed calling
+  convention for doebuild("depend").
+
+  13 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: removed
+  erroneous "local dbkeys" that was outside of a function.  This fixes some
+  cache update problems.  Added INHERIT to our cache entries so we can
+  correctly update the cache for eclass ebuilds.
+  
+  12 Jul 2002; Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org> make.globals, make.globals.ppc:
+  remove default KDE2DIR, KDE3DIR settings and comments. The kde eclasses will
+  now handle the case where they are not defined. This will be used with kde
+  3.1 and later, and the difference between their default value and them not
+  being defined is important.
+
+*portage-2.0.13 (11 Jul 2002)
+
+  11 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> tarball.sh: our tarball
+  script didn't clean the src/sandbox directory before creating our distribution
+  tarball. This resulted in src/sandbox/sandbox (the executable) being distributed,
+  and the "make" in the ebuild thinking everything was up-to-date.  The result?
+  Everyone in the world got a sandbox compiled with gcc 3.1.  This has been
+  fixed, closing bug #4867, #4851.
+  
+  10 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: removed some
+  bogus code that snuck in.  pkg_setup() is no longer called when installing a
+  tbz2.  All tbz2 stuff should be done in pkg_pre/postinst().
+
+*portage-2.0.12 (10 Jul 2002)
+
+  10 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ccache support is now
+  controlled via a "ccache" FEATURES variable, which is enabled in make.globals
+  my default.  ccache support can now be turned off by adding a
+  FEATURES="-ccache" to /etc/make.conf.  Also, CCACHE_DIR correctly detected
+  and utilized.
+
+  10 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: "emerge --help
+  rsync" now works correctly and displays rync help rather than rsyncing.  This
+  closes bug #4438, #4629.
+
+  10 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Portage now
+  prints a friendly error if PORTAGE_TMPDIR doesn't exist or is not a
+  directory.  This effectively closes bug #4360.
+
+  10 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: the "inject",
+  "sync" and "rsync" actions no longer allow "--pretend" or "-p" to be
+  specified. This closes bug #4352.
+  
+  10 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> sandbox.c: use realpath()
+  to expand the PORTAGE_TMPDIR, /var/tmp, /tmp paths.  This allows write access
+  to these directories even if /var or /var/tmp is a symlink, for example.
+  Without this fix, access to these directories will be denied by the sandbox,
+  creating a bunch of problems.  Closes bugs #4256, #2379, #4625, #2931, #4829.
+
+  10 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> megadigest, megadownload,
+  megatouch, pkgsearch: removed from the bin/ directory; deprecated.
+
+  10 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge, quickpkg: remove
+  hard-coded references to "/usr/portage" in "emerge search", quickpkg.  Now
+  correctly uses PORTDIR instead.  Closes bug #4836.
+
+  10 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: emerge now checks
+  to see if the "wheel" group exists before running; if it doesn't, it exits
+  with a polite error message.  Closes bug #4736.
+  
+  08 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: changed the
+  unmerge() code so that it doesn't use mtimes to test whether a symlink
+  should be unmerged, since mtimes and symlinks are weird partners.  Instead,
+  we save unmerging of our symlinks until the end of the code, and unmerge
+  them only if their target no longer exists.  This closes bug #4491.
+  
+  08 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: check whether
+  ebuild actually exists immediately before running pkg_postint() and
+  pkg_preinst() from the dblink merge() method.  Also change all PKG_TMPDIR
+  references to PORTAGE_TMPDIR plus suffix, closing bug #4447, #4853.
+
+*portage-2.0.11 (07 Jul 2002)
+
+  07 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: rewrote
+  portdbapi's xmatch() and visible() to fix significant bugs.  Logic errors in
+  both methods caused ~ deps to not work correctly.  After the rewrite,
+  dependency checking is now 44% faster.
+
+  07 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> repoman, portage.py: Added
+  new DEPEND and RDEPEND.badmasked categories to repoman.  repoman now checks
+  dependencies of masked packages using *all* ebuilds, rather than trying to
+  match them against all visible ebuilds.  DEPEND.bad and RDEPEND.bad (used to
+  be ".unsolvable") now only tally visible ebuilds, not masked ones.
+
+*portage-2.0.10 (06 Jul 2002)
+
+  05 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, repoman: Added
+  new capabilities to repoman -- the ability to detect unsolvable DEPEND and
+  RDEPEND variables, missing DESCRIPTION, LICENSE, KEYWORDS and SLOT.  Fixed
+  repoman so that adding a comment with quotes in it doesn't break things.
+  Added a few tiny extensions to portage.py to support the new repoman
+  features.
+  
+  03 Jul 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: some ebuilds
+  like gcc do not use $S to build the package in, and this causes generated .la
+  files (libtool) to contain $WORKDIR in them.  We thus export $WORKDIR in
+  ebuild.sh as well, to go along with fixes to the libtool-portage patch.
+
+  02 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: pkg_setup() now
+  gets called before a tbz2 is installed, and pkg_preinst() and postinst() get
+  called at the right times as well.
+  
+  01 Jul 2002; Phil Bordelon <sunflare@gentoo.org> emerge: "emerge --help
+  rsync" does an rsync instead of printing help.  Until this is fixed, I
+  removed it from the list of detailed help options.
+
+*portage-2.0.9 (01 Jul 2002)
+
+  01 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> Added missing .match()
+  method to portdbapi.
+  
+  01 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added new
+  operator for dependencies: DEPEND="foo? bar : oni" will use oni if foo isn't
+  set.  Added "||" support back after removing it from my working copy; looks
+  ok.
+  
+  29 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, make.globals,
+  make.globals.ppc: internalized definitions of BUILDDIR and PKG_TMPDIR in
+  order to make things work as expected when one sets PORTAGE_TMPDIR.  The new
+  config file var expansion algorithm made this change necessary.
+  
+  29 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fix doebuild()
+  so that pkg_setup() gets called when a .tbz2 package is being built.  This
+  closes bug #3673.
+  
+  29 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: tweaked the
+  aux_get() code to automatically regenerate cache files if they have the
+  incorrect number of entries.  Added an additional fix to this code on 01 Jul
+  2002.
+  
+  29 Jun 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> portage.py: merge in some
+  of the missing ld.so.preload fixes again.
+
+  29 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: new version
+  with highly-optimized dependency calculation caching, particularly for
+  portdbapi.  Includes new three-level caching portdbapi xmatch() method.
+ 
+  27 Jun 2002; Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Added keepdir()
+  function so that it no longer has to be hardcoded in ebuilds.
+
+*portage-2.0.8 (27 Jun 2002)
+ 
+  27 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: in an attempt to
+  provide a predictable release of Portage, I'm reverting the "emerge
+  --pretend" "fix" in Portage-2.0.6.  It ignores custom USE settings when
+  calculating child deps, which makes things tricky for users.  We'll use the
+  "expected" (old) behavior for now until we have a solution for this USE
+  issue.
+  
+  27 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fixed handling
+  of ! deps in match(), closing bug #4219.  Thanks Spidler!
+
+  27 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: disabled USE
+  regeneration on reset() for performance purposes.
+
+*portage-2.0.7 (26 Jun 2002)
+
+  26 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: add a friendly
+  error handler for aux_get() so that flaky ebuilds don't cause it to trip up
+  with a cryptic traceback; users will get a friendly error message instead.
+  Also, temporarily disable keyword-based masking, since it currently slows
+  down Portage by quite a bit since it causes a much greater set of ebuilds to
+  be cached.
+
+*portage-2.0.6 (25 Jun 2002)
+
+  25 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: rewrote the
+  config file code to make things more sane, consistent, and made infinite
+  loops during variable expansion a thing of the past.  This closes bug #3952.
+  
+  25 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge, portage.py,
+  ebuild.sh: "emerge --pretend" and "emerge search" now work for the root user
+  as well as any users in the "wheel" group.  emerge will now gracefully exit
+  if "emerge search" is run by someone not in the "wheel" group.  This closes
+  bug #4121.
+  
+  25 Jun 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> bin/{dolib.so,preplib.so}:
+  Also change "strip --strip-unneeded" to "strip --strip-debug" for these.
+  Look at bugs #2702,#3929,#4027 for more info.
+
+  25 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: "emerge -u" now
+  correctly scans dependencies of packages, even if they are up-to-date, to
+  determine if any of their dependencies need updating.  Previously, up-to-date
+  packages were not scanned in this way, which was a bug.
+  
+  24 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Portage will now
+  automatically take advantage of ccache if the >=dev-util/ccache-1.9 ebuild is
+  installed.  Removing /var/cache/ccache hole in the sandbox.
+
+*portage-2.0.5 (24 Jun 2002)
+
+  23 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: basic keyword-
+  based masking is now active.  New support for KEYWORDS in ebuilds and
+  ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in profiles.
+
+  23 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> conf files: removed
+  references to non-functional FTP_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY and added a note about
+  how to use the correct vars (ftp_proxy and http_proxy.)  Closes bug #1664.
+  Also added note about RSYNC_PROXY, closing bug #2332.
+
+  23 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: removed
+  "dependency too short" checks which weren't working and were causing deps
+  like "mc" and "ed" to be rejected as invalid rather than being expanded.
+
+  23 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: upgraded "clean"
+  code to be more robust, consistent. Closes bug #3967.
+
+*portage-2.0.4 (20 Jun 2002)
+
+  20 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> in the 2.0.4 ebuild itself:
+  added back tbz2tool symlink which was mistakenly removed.  Also changed the
+  way we compile portage.py stuff so that we remove the previously compiled
+  files, just in case clock skew cause them to seem more recent than they
+  really are.  Python byte-code compilation moved to pkg_postinst()
+
+  20 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fixed up the
+  fetch() code so that invalid digests don't cause a traceback.
+
+  20 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: some of the new
+  transplanted virtuals code assumed that profiledir was set, which is not 
+  required.  This code has now been fixed to not make that assumption.
+
+*portage-2.0.3 (20 Jun 2002)
+
+  20 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fixed two typos
+  pointed out by stroke and g2boojum.  These fix unmerge and some aspect of
+  virtuals handling, which was previously causing a traceback.
+  
+  19 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: emerge -eup world
+  now will ignore world entries if it isn't really installed locally; in 2.0.1,
+  --emptytree would auto-enable all world entries, leading to inconsistent
+  package lists between --emptytree and without.
+
+*portage-2.0.2 (19 Jun 2002)
+
+  19 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> make.conf.ppc,
+  make.globals.ppc: integrated these files into our sources.
+  
+  19 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fixed a bug
+  where ROOT="" would not get properly converted to ROOT="/".
+  
+  18 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: Portage 2.0+ has
+  fixed "!" depend matching support, but some code in emerge was designed to
+  anticipate the incorrect behavior.  This emerge code has been fixed to work
+  correctly.  This closes my part of bug #3834.
+  
+  18 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: fixed
+  bug #2444, where emerge fails when "--emptytree" and "--onlydeps" are used at
+  the same time.
+  
+  18 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: new
+  fakedbapi for doing emptytree calculations; emptytree upgrades in emerge.
+  "emerge -upe world" now works correctly, accounting for items in the world
+  profile.  Yay!  Bugs #3832 and #1911 fixed.
+  
+  18 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge:
+  Integrated new aux_get() method into our portdbapi.  aux_get() provides a
+  standardized way to get cached information about ebuilds, and is now fully
+  integrated into Portage and emerge search.
+
+  18 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fixed a bug
+  where dep_nomatch() was testing for None rather than a "zero" condition,
+  causing dep_nomatch() to choke on match()'s [] return value.
+  
+  17 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: added an exception
+  handler to catch invalid regular expressions and avoid a traceback.
+  
+  17 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> sandbox.c: added
+  /var/cache/ccache to sandbox "write ok" list, closing bug #3028.
+
+*portage-2.0.1 (16 Jun 2002)
+
+  16 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: fixed a
+  virtuals expansion bug that would cause virtuals to be consulted too early.
+
+*portage-2.0 (16 Jun 2002)
+
+  16 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, ebuild.sh,
+  emerge: turbo-ified Portage, new Portage db API and many other fixes.
+  Unmerging now works again (bug introduced several releases ago.)  I
+  originally wanted to hold off on releasing 2.0, but since several major bugs
+  are fixed, we need to get these fixes out to our users ASAP.  We will be
+  releasing 2.1 in about a week which should include additional refinements.
+
+  16 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> repoman: New repoman
+  commit/check QA tool for developers.
+
+  10 Jun 2002; Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org> make.conf: Update the ibiblio
+  mirror path; it is now www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo.
+
+  10 Jun 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh : Some users have
+  $TMPDIR to a custom dir in their home ...this will cause sandbox errors with
+  some ./configure scripts or libtool, so set it to $T.
+
+  10 Jun 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> portage.py : Merge in the
+  ld.so.preload changes.  Also updated spawn() to only run sandbox if
+  buildphase is one of clean, unpack, compile or install. This should fix the
+  handler not detecting some instances of sandbox running.  Updated ebuildsh()
+  to set buildphase="" on spawn exit.
+
+  10 Jun 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
+  portage.py.ldsopreload,testsandbox.sh : Add support to test if another
+  sandbox is running, if so dont delete /etc/ld.so.preload on kill.  I did not
+  commit this to portage.py, as it is a bit more changes than we originally
+  though.
+
+  05 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: doebuild() now
+  has proper logic for digest generation.  Digest will now get regenerated if
+  "ebuild digest" is run, even if "digest" is in FEATURES.
+  
+  04 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: fixed typo in
+  "inject" documentation.
+  
+  02 Jun 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> bin/dosym: changed the
+  command used from "ln -sf" to "ln -snf" as it created a symlink in the target
+  directory if the linkname already existed (only if the target is a
+  directory).  Im guessing this should be fixed in the python merged code if
+  symlinks are not unlinked before the new is merged into place .. will add a
+  bug later.
+
+*portage-1.9.14 (01 Jun 2002)
+
+  01 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: when a file to
+  be merged is identical to the one currently on disk (using the md5 test), we
+  now at least correctly update the target's mtime and atime so that cleaning
+  will work correctly.
+  
+  27 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> bin/do*: changed "return"s
+  to "exit 1".  Closes bug #3078.
+
+*portage-1.9.13 (21 May 2002)
+
+  21 May 2002; Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org> emerge.1: Updated man page.
+  Thanks to carpaski@twobit.net.  
+
+  20 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: a fix for dep
+  regeneration; stale dep cache entries should now be properly regenerated.
+
+*portage-1.9.12 (16 May 2002)
+
+  16 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: the settings
+  for A and AA were swapped; this has now been fixed, closing bug #1634.
+  
+  15 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fixed up some
+  quirks in the new fetch code which were reported by Wout Mertens.  Thanks
+  Wout!
+
+*portage-1.9.11 (13 May 2002)
+
+  13 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: addition of 
+  third-party mirroring code.  "mirror://sourceforge/foo.tar.gz" will use the
+  /usr/portage/profiles/thirdpartymirrors file to define the mirror it will
+  download from.  Multiple mirrors for a single keyword can be specified on a
+  single line.  This code was based on the good work of Ryan Phillips.
+  
+  13 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: (entry on behalf
+  of jnelson) -- we now have new KV detection/setting code that uses
+  /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h to determine the kernel version -- the
+  right way of doing things.  KV is set to "" if the kernel is not available or
+  not configured.
+  
+  13 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: "abspath[x]" =>
+  "abspath(x)" typo fix.  Also added 2-liner to allow for "emerge unmerge" to
+  specify "foo/bar-1.0" rather than requiring "=foo/bar-1.0."  Also fixed
+  problems when specifying the names of actual ebuilds in /var/db/pkg to
+  unmerge.
+  
+*portage-1.9.9 (06 May 2002) ??
+
+  08 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: An empty
+  USE_ORDER (due to an out-of-date /etc/make.globals) would cause USE to always
+  be empty.  I added a reasonable default USE_ORDER if USE_ORDER is not found
+  in any of the config files, fixing this problem.
+  
+  06 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: post bug #1841
+  cleanups; converted from .hasnode() to .dep_match() (correct) in
+  getworldlist().
+
+*portage-1.9.8 (06 May 2002)
+
+  06 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: 2 fixes that seemed
+  to get fried/zapped: bug #1841 and fixing an emerge sync error code to be
+  more understandable.
+
+*portage-1.9.7 (06 May 2002)
+
+  06 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: initial
+  bunch of robustness/error-handling fixes.  Emerge should now report a
+  comprehensible error message for errors in DEPEND and RDEPEND rather than
+  giving a traceback.  Fixed dep_depreduce() to catch errors rather than
+  passing them on to dep_bestmatch() (which doesn't check for errors and
+  assumes correct input)
+  
+  02 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: typo fix for
+  S_ISFIFO call; thanks woodchip!
+
+*portage-1.9.6 (02 May 2002)
+
+  02 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> make.conf: SYNC variable
+  correctly set to use our DNS round-robin system (rsync.gentoo.org).
+
+*portage-1.9.6_pre2 (01 May 2002)
+
+  01 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: config file
+  protection upgrade; we now record md5sums of previously-merged config protect
+  files in /var/cache/edb/config; we use this information to avoid merging
+  files that have been merged by us before (if it is safe to do so).  This 
+  doesn't solve the problem of rolling back to a previously-merged version of
+  a config file; we need to add cvs headers to every config file to get that
+  to work.
+  
+*portage-1.9.6_pre1 (01 May 2002)
+
+  01 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: added "inject"
+  capability to artificially satisfy a dep -- for situations when you don't
+  want Portage to do it for you because you've taken care of it already.
+  
+  01 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: totally
+  rewrote emerge's unmerge code.  The original code (added by Bevin) was a bit
+  too cryptic and "big" for my taste.  Also added two new capabilities to
+  portage.py's vartree: .getslot() and .gettimeval().  getslot() returns the
+  slot value of a cat/pkg-v, if any, and gettimeval() returns a "time value"
+  (based on mtime/COUNTER value) that can be used to determine the order in
+  which packages got merged.  The purpose of these improvements were to revamp
+  the existing Portage code that could only unmerge a db entry if there was a
+  corresponding ebuild file.  This conflicted with the ability to "inject"
+  packages (see above), so it needed to be changed.  Also fixed some bugs along
+  the way.
+  
+  01 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: einstall now
+  accepts arguments, closing bug #2275.  Thanks seemant! :)
+  
+  01 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> make.globals: switch SYNC
+  var from cvs.gentoo.org to rsync.gentoo.org, and gentoo-x86-portage to
+  gentoo-portage.
+  
+  30 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: now checks for
+  errors (caused by bad deps) returned by create() and syscreate().
+
+*portage-1.9.5 (29 Apr 2002)
+
+  29 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: added jnelson's
+  KV_extract.awk script which extracts the kernel version from the actual
+  kernel sources Makefile, making our KV setting much more robust!  Thanks Jon
+  :)
+  
+  29 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: correctly fixed
+  emerge search examples to use single quotes (to turn off globbing.)  This
+  closes bug #1609.
+
+  29 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: virtual entries
+  for no-longer-installed packages now get automatically removed on unmerge.
+  This closes bug #2255 and #1891 (Thilo Bangert's comment on #1891 is also
+  fixed.)
+
+*portage-1.9.4 (29 Apr 2002)
+
+  29 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added support
+  for RESTRICT="nomirror".  If "mirror" is defined in FEATURES and "nomirror"
+  is defined in RESTRICT, then files will not be fetched.
+  
+  29 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: Fixed docs for
+  "unmerge", added docs for "--oneshot".  Closes bugs #2156 and #2182.
+
+  29 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Fix for USE
+  troubles; confirmed by Azarah as working :)  Also, we now strip the path
+  from "KV" as we should.
+
+*portage-1.9.4_pre1 (26 Apr 2002)
+
+  26 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> tarball.sh: no longer
+  necessary for VERSION to equal "@portage_version@" to get the version
+  auto-set.  VERSION can now be set to anything and tarball.sh will get it
+  right.
+  
+  26 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: I've started work
+  on revamping/improving the "blocks" system to get ready to fix bug #1891.
+  Already fixed a bug where "blocks" ("!" deps) print out the wrong blocking
+  package name. This is now fixed.  Blocks need additional testing.
+  
+  26 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, ebuild.sh, use:
+  "use" is now a bash builtin function rather than an external python-based
+  command.  This appears to fix the USE inconstencies, as it should, thereby
+  closing bug #2000.
+
+*portage-1.9.3 (24 Apr 2002)
+
+  24 Apr 2002; Jon Nelson <jnelson@gentoo.org>: portage.py, chkcontents:
+  Emulate fchksum's md5 checksum routine.  Closes bug #2787.
+  
+  23 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: emerge: invalid
+  short options result in an exit.  Closes bug #2025.
+  
+  22 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: emerge: rsync zlib
+  compression enabled by default.
+
+*portage-1.9.2 (21 Apr 2002)
+
+  21 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py: signal
+  handler now zaps /etc/ld.so.preload if it's there -- this prevents it
+  from hanging around and causing sandbox badness.
+  
+  21 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: emerge: fixed an
+  error where --emptytree mode wouldn't really have a fully empty tree,
+  due to the emptytree.inject() coming before the emptytree.root=None;
+  the inject() caused a recalc of the USE vars, which caused the tree
+  to become partially populated and it wasn't cleared.  This closes bug
+  #1897.
+  
+  21 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py: package
+  building now executes the "setup" stage along with the unpack, compile,
+  install stages so that global variables can be shared.  This fixes an issue
+  with woodchip's new apache ebuild and closes bug #1813.
+
+*portage-1.9.1 (16 Apr 2002)
+
+  16 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: tiny (and forgotten)
+  quick fix.
+
+*portage-1.9.0 (16 Apr 2002)
+
+  16 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py: fetching
+  should now try *all* alternate download locations, closing bug #1544. 
+  Yay!
+  
+  15 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: emerge: "emerge R" now
+  works correctly, closing bug #1094.
+  
+  15 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: ebuild.sh: *'s and ?'s in
+  DEPEND and SRC_URI syntax should no longer get glob-expanded to files in
+  /usr/portage.  This fixes some cryptic bugs.  It also closes bug #1473.
+  
+  15 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py: emerge --debug
+  now works again.  Closes bug #1437.
+  
+  15 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py: moved argument
+  check to the beginning of the doebuild() function to prevent "ebuild
+  foo.ebuild fart" from causing the md5sums to be checked before recognizing
+  that "fart" is not a valid command.  Closes bug #1823.
+  
+  15 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py: 'USE="-foo"
+  emerge bar' should now work correctly and consistently.  Fixes to the config
+  class.  Closes bug #1455.
+  
+  15 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py: applied
+  jnelson's patch to properly kill all children when interrupted with ^C
+  
+  15 Apr 2002; Donny Davies <woodchip@gentoo.org>: make.conf: added a
+  RESUMECOMMAND for lukemftp.
+  
+  15 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py: fixed up some
+  "zing" logic inside the merge code (fixing variable being used before
+  assignment errors)
+  
+  15 Apr 2002; Jon Nelson <jnelson@gentoo.org>: src/sandbox/Makefile,
+  src/sandbox/problems/Makefile, src/sandbox/problems/sandbox_dev_fd_foo.c,
+  src/sandbox/sandbox.c: Cleaned up Makefiles somewhat to take advantage of GNU
+  Make, added '/dev/zero' and /dev/fd/' (<- note trailing slash) to the list of
+  items accessible safely from the sandbox.  Added sandbox_dev_fd_foo.c to test
+  for /dev/fd/<xx>.  The test is almost verbatim from the autoconf test suite.
+
+  13 Apr 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>: ebuild.sh:
+  Export $S and $D in dyn_compile and dyn_install, as our patched
+  version of libtool uses these to fixup .la files.
+
+*portage-1.8.19 (09 Apr 2002)
+
+  08 Apr 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org>: emerge: Removed --all switch to
+  emerge unmerge and clea.  Added emerge prune which is the same as old emerge
+  unmerge.  Emerge unmerge removes all instances again without any proctedtion,
+  as before.  Added reporting of Omitted versions due to dep selectors.
+  Renamed Removing and Keeping to Selected and Protected
+
+  08 Apr 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org>: emerge, portage.py: Better
+  unmerge and clean reporting.  Added homepage output to emerge --search.
+  Bugfix when specifying a package without category that doesn't exist.
+
+*portage-1.8.18 (07 Apr 2002)
+
+  07 Apr 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org>: make.globals, emerge:
+  Simplified unmerge functionality. Deprecated the CLEANMODE var,
+  emerge clean now removes both revisions and slots automatically,
+  emerge unmerge now removes all versions and revisions by default.
+  Both understand world and system targets, and the --all option which doesn't
+  check which packages are old and outdated.
+  Documentation fixes.
+  AUTOCLEAN var addition and added the autoclean functionality.
+  
+*portage-1.8.17 (05 Apr 2002)
+
+  05 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py: no longer
+  print out the counter number after a merge.  This information should not
+  need to be known by end-users.
+  
+  05 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: sandbox.c: patched to
+  allow access to /dev/vc from sandbox, allowing vim and screen to compile
+  correctly from console.
+  
+  05 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py: fixed a bug
+  that prevented md5 digests from being compared on archives.
+  
+  04 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py: Parse errors
+  in /etc/env.d files no longer cause a traceback.
+
+*portage-1.8.16 (04 Apr 2002)
+
+  04 Apr 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge : Forgot to
+  commit my changes, this is an assembled version of both drobbins's and my
+  changes
+
+*portage-1.8.15 (04 Apr 2002)
+
+  04 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixed a
+  semi-long standing bug where I was comparing atimes rather than mtimes when
+  seeing if dep caches were stale.  This fixes a bug originally reported by Dan
+  Armak.
+  
+*portage-1.8.14 (04 Apr 2002)
+
+  04 Apr 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge:
+  Fixed short options for --all, --safe and clean.
+  
+*portage-1.8.13 (04 Apr 2002)
+
+  04 Apr 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge:
+  Added emerge --all clean and emerge --safe unmerge.
+  Made the counter updates atomic so that multiple merges can happen without
+  risking counter clashes.
+  Updated --help.
+  Fixed short options bug that prevented two seperate short options to be
+  specified successively.
+
+*portage-1.8.12 (04 Apr 2002)
+
+  04 Apr 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge:
+  implemented "emerge clean" with oldrevs, oldversions and oldslots options for
+  the make.conf/make.globals CLEANMODE variable.
+  
+  03 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added an
+  indentation fix to prevent merge from dying if a file attempts to install
+  itself on top of an existing directory.  Closes bug #1498.
+
+*portage-1.8.11.1 (03 Apr 2002)
+
+  03 Apr 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py: important fixes
+  for movefile() -- changed the order of ownership / permissions settings since
+  suid/guid bits were overwritten, added support back for 'ebuild config' since
+  it was accidentally left out
+
+*portage-1.8.11 (02 Apr 2002)
+
+  02 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: important fixes
+  for movefile() -- ownership now preserved across filesystems, mv -f fallback
+  for special files, other optimizations and robustness improvements.  Important
+  fixes all-round.
+
+  02 Apr 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge: 
+  fixed bad indentation of a part of the code that made unmerging multiple
+  packages behave badly
+
+*portage-1.8.10 (01 Apr 2002)
+
+  01 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> make.globals: removed USE
+  settings from make.globals.
+
+  01 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: In trying to fix
+  the glibc merge bug, we rewrote movefile() and it now runs blazingly fast.  I
+  also tweaked the code to remove the need for an ">>> Updating mtimes..."
+  stage.  This is all done dynamically now.  *Much* faster.  And hopefully
+  solid for glibc upgraders.
+
+*portage-1.8.9.4 (01 Apr 2002)
+
+  31 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: adapted
+  movefile() which should preserves timestamps and ownership on files and
+  symlinks it moves.
+
+*portage-1.8.9.3 (31 Mar 2002)
+
+  31 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: promising
+  rewrite of movefile() not only will probably fix glibc merge bug but also
+  speeds up merging at least 20x!  Calling "mv" for every file really make
+  things super-slow!
+
+*portage-1.8.9.2 (31 Mar 2002)
+
+  31 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: desperate attempt
+  to fix movefile() bug... a hack really.  glibc merges still dying.
+
+*portage-1.8.9.1 (31 Mar 2002)
+
+  31 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: it appears that
+  movefile() (using "/bin/mv") can still die if moving a new symlink on top of
+  an existing library symlink.  Upon failure, we now use a fallback mechanism
+  to use "/bin/sln" to create the new symlink safely.
+
+*portage-1.8.9 (30 Mar 2002)
+
+  30 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: tiny cosmetic
+  fix for digest generation.
+  
+  30 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: entries in the
+  world profile will be ignored if at least one version of the package in
+  question isn't already merged.  Prevents "--update world" from remerging
+  packages that have since been unmerged.
+  
+  30 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> various: changing all
+  references from /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python2.2.
+  
+  30 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> db-update.py: moving this
+  script here from FILESDIR.
+  
+  30 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: stuff doesn't
+  get added to the world profile if it is already an essential ("*") package in
+  the system profile.  Keeps things clean and flexible.
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre38 (30 Mar 2002)
+
+  30 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: resolve_key()
+  didn't call load() on mapped virtuals, resulting in inconsistent resolution
+  of virtual keys.  Now fixed; thanks to woodchip for the bug report.
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre37 (30 Mar 2002)
+
+  30 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: specific
+  provides (dev-lang/python-2.2) will be converted to their generic form
+  (dev-lang/python) before being recorded.
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre36 (30 Mar 2002)
+
+  30 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: new
+  virtuals fixes and a db-upgrade.py script in the ebuild to solve another
+  virtuals problem.
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre35 (29 Mar 2002)
+
+  29 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: digest
+  generation fixes; emerge --update will now update dependents even if the main
+  package hasn't been updated.  getdict() fix, fixing a traceback.
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre34 (28 Mar 2002)
+
+  28 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added an indent
+  fix for the new virtuals code, eliminating a traceback.  Tweaked digest handling,
+  fixing a cosmetic error.
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre33 (28 Mar 2002)
+
+  28 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: tweaked digest
+  creation in doebuild() to hopefully avoid creating digests twice.  I hope I
+  didn't break anything in the process.
+
+  28 Mar 2002: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: "emerge
+  update" is now "emerge --update"; "world" added back.  New world
+  implementation that works like this ... if you type "emerge media-gfx/gimp",
+  media-gfx/gimp will be added to the "world" favorites file in
+  /var/cache/edb/world.  This world file is added to the system profile in
+  order to create the set of "world" packages to merge.  You can manually put
+  specific deps (for pinning) in /var/cache/edb/world and they won't get
+  overwritten.  To prevent a package that you specify on the emerge
+  command-line from being added to the world profile, use the "--oneshot"
+  option, which tells emerge that it should be merged once but not updated.
+  
+  28 Mar 2002: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: New virtuals
+  implementation; new virtual info is recorded in /var/cache/edb/virtuals;
+  virtuals data is created by merging the profile virtual info with the new
+  edb/virtuals file.  Note: We no longer add virtual package entries to
+  /var/db/pkg.  This change solves the bug where virtual files get auto-updated
+  by pkg-update, and also solves the bug where doing an "emerge --update world"
+  will cause ssmtp to be merged in order to satisfy the virtual/mta dep (which
+  you already have satisfied by postfix, for example).  Now, postfix will be
+  updated if necessary, but that's it. :)
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre32 (22 Mar 2002)
+
+  22 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fixed a bug
+  related to scanning for available binary packages, which would cause emerge
+  to die.
+  
+  21 Mar 2002; Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org> portage.py: added ECLASSDIR
+  (=$PORTDIR/eclass) to settings exported by python side to bash side.
+  ebuild.sh: remove ECLASSDIR setting to use the one now provided by
+  portage.py.  Also, clean inherit() and make it use debug-print().
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre31 (21 Mar 2002)
+
+  21 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Added Dan
+  Armak's patch to enable eclasses. :)
+  
+  21 Mar 2002; Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org> portage.py: 
+  Added a drobbins patch to at line 469.  Should fix emerge rsync
+  problem when /etc/make.profile doesn't exist.
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre30 (20 Mar 2002)
+
+  20 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: emerge
+  --emptytree now works again and I added a new --nodeps option to emerge as
+  well.
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre29 (20 Mar 2002)
+
+  20 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: CONTENTS files
+  now record the correct path when ROOT!="/".
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre28 (20 Mar 2002)
+
+  20 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: an
+  /etc/make.profile dir is now optional and portage will work if it's missing
+  or is a broken symlink.
+  
+  20 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fix load()
+  method in packagetree() class.
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre27 (19 Mar 2002)
+
+  19 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py:
+  /etc/make.profile/packages wasn't correctly masking core system packages;
+  fixed.
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre26 (18 Mar 2002)
+
+  18 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: configuration
+  settings don't get loaded from ${ROOT}/etc anymore, just /etc.  This
+  simplifies the creation of a new build image.
+  
+  18 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Don't expect a
+  digest file if SRC_URI is set to "" or undefined.
+
+  18 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: RDEPEND was getting set
+  to DEPEND even if there was an RDEPEND="" in the ebuild.  This has now been
+  fixed and RDEPEND will only get to DEPEND if RDEPEND has unset (not "unset
+  or null", as it was before this fix.)
+  
+  18 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: emerge: circular
+  dependencies error will result in the digraph dependencies being printed to
+  stdout, greatly simplifying debugging.
+  
+  18 Mar 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org>: src/sandbox/problems: Added
+  several sample implementations to reproduce reported bugs.
+
+  18 Mar 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org>: libsandbox.c: All paths are now
+  checked for multiple successive slashes anywhere, this closes bug 827.
+  Performance should be slightly improved for other apps on the system for who
+  the sandbox is not turned on.
+  
+  14 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: output.py: quick fix to
+  turn off white color output -- not good for terminals with white background.
+  This closes bug #1135.
+  
+  11 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: Applied karltk's version
+  information patch.  Portage.py now contains version information, and this
+  info is reported by "emerge --version".  Thanks Karl! :)
+ 
+*portage-1.8.9_pre25 (11 Mar 2002)
+ 
+  10 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: roll
+  back portagetree incremental db optimizations to fix an important bug (no
+  package.mask calculations being done.)  Emerge will now abort if a dependency
+  can't be satisfied rather than printing just a warning.
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre24 (09 Mar 2002)
+
+  09 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: fixed missing
+  "--clean" option so "--clean rsync" should work again.  Also converted emerge
+  to work with our new db layout (db objects are in the portage module now).
+
+  09 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added USE
+  ordering, a concept envisioned by Vitaly Kushneriuk.  The idea is to allow
+  customization of how Portage resolves USE variables.  The default is
+  "env:conf:auto:defaults" (set in the USE_ORDER variable -- this default is
+  now in make.globals but as always you should set your custom USE_ORDER in
+  make.conf if desired.)  So, my default, USE settings will be calculated as
+  follows.  The USE variables will be grabbed from the
+  /etc/make.profile/make.defaults file (this is "defaults".) Then, the
+  /etc/make.profile/use.defaults file will be consulted.  This file lists (one
+  per line) a USE variable and a corresponding dependency.  If the dependency
+  is satisfied, the USE variable is auto-enabled and added to our working list
+  (this is "auto").  Then /etc/make.conf is consulted, so that the user has the
+  option of force-enabling (with USE="foo") or force-disabling (with
+  USE="-foo") any USE variables as desired (this is "conf".)  Then, the
+  environment is consulted, allowing easy modifications from the command-line
+  (this is "env").  Also added is the ability for USE settings to be
+  dynamically regenerated in an efficient way as packages are merged.  So,
+  right after xfree is emerged, the "X" use variable can be immediately
+  auto-enabled.  Thanks to Vitaly for providing the vision for this.
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre23 (08 Mar 2002)
+
+  09 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: our portage
+  tree and /var/db/pkg tree now uses incremental caching rather than doing
+  an exhaustive scan on startup.  This should speed up this respective code
+  by 2-30x depending on how many packages you're emerging.  This involved
+  quite a few changes to the code, and there could be some bugs, although I
+  tried to be very careful.  These changes could also break code that access
+  internal .tree[] dictionaries directly. 
+  
+  08 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: SRC_URIs with
+  USE-enabled ( ) clauses in them weren't working because I was iterating
+  through multi-level lists without flatten()ing them.  Now fixed.
+  
+  07 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: We no longer
+  depend upon a file being unmerged.  We try to unlink during unmerge() in a
+  "try" clause, with an exception for OSError.  If the directory is immutable
+  then Portage continues gracefully.  This closes a bug reported by Verwilst --
+  unmerging an old baselayout would die when it tried to delete /dev/shm.
+  Fixed in Portage to eliminate these kinds of problems in the future.
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre22 (07 Mar 2002)
+
+  07 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: I had
+  sys.exit() in doebuild()'s fetch section.  Converted to "return 1" and
+  "return 0" to be emerge --fetchonly friendly.  Thanks to Dan Armak for the
+  bug report.
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre21 (07 Mar 2002)
+
+  07 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fixed symlink
+  merge bug related to "safe" emerges.  This should fix problems of Portage
+  dying when merging certain things.  I'm hoping that this fix will give us a
+  solid merge implementation.  It should.  Thanks to Bart Verwilst for tracking
+  down a merge problem that I could reproduce.
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre20 (06 Mar 2002)
+
+  06 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh, others: users
+  can now forcefully disable stripping of their ebuild binaries by adding a
+  RESTRICT="nostrip" to their ebuild.  Additionally, the DEBUG variable has
+  been renamed to DEBUGBUILD to prevent namespace collisions.  This closes bug
+  #868.
+  
+  06 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py : Fixed a
+  long-standing bug where the pkg_preinst() and pkg_postinst() functions being
+  called came from the existing package ebuild in /var/db/pkg rather than the
+  new ebuild being merged.  pkg_prerm() and pkg_postrm() still use the ebuild
+  in /var/db/pkg, which is correct.  Thanks to Dan Armak for tracking down this
+  bug.
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre19 (05 Mar 2002)
+  
+  05 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py : Fixed two bugs
+  reported by Dan Armak relating to incomplete (not missing) message digests.
+  They should now get regenerated automatically is "digest" is in FEATURES and
+  not confuse the fetch code.
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre18 (04 Mar 2002)
+
+  04 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py : Bug fix in
+  dep_bestmatch(); rev comparison now works correctly and dep_bestmatch will
+  properly handle 2-digit revisions in particular.  This closes bug #952.
+  
+  04 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py : Thanks to a
+  bug report by Bruce Locke, the long-standing bug where symlinks with
+  different mtimes would still get unmerged is now fixed.  This allows glibc
+  (of all things) to be unmerged safely.  We needed this fix.  Closes bug #964.
+  
+  03 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py : KDEDIR ->
+  KDEDIRS (fixing my typo)
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre17 (27 Feb 2002)
+
+  27 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge : --help
+  documentation is now up-to-date; short options tweaked.
+  
+  26 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py : Fixed an
+  unmerge error caused by digests now being recorded in lowercase.  unmerge now
+  compensates for 100% backwards compatibility.  Moved "continue" outside of
+  "try" block since this is disallowed in Python.  This fixes a python warning
+  during fetch.
+  
+  26 Feb 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> bin/dohtml : Added support for
+  installing .gif files too since quite some docs still ship with those instead
+  of .jpg or .png.
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre16 (25 Feb 2002)
+
+  25 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge : emerge syntax
+  changed back to "classic" style; replaced dots with spinner, did a major code
+  cleanup and removed pieces that will be rewritten for 1.8.9 final.  emerge
+  documentation isn't up-to-date at all; I'm holding off on the --help rewrite
+  until after 1.8.9 features have been finalized (soon!)
+ 
+  25 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> : Added RESTRICT variable
+  to ebuilds.  If RESTRICT="fetch" is set in the ebuild, it means that the
+  files listed in SRC_URI are simply filenames and that the real files must be
+  downloaded manually.  This allows us to deal with realplayer, since
+  overriding dyn_fetch is no longer an option now that we have the fetch code
+  in python.  Also added a cosmetic tweak to emerge during info file
+  regeneration.
+  
+  25 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> cnf/* : updated ${x} ->
+  ${URI} in $FETCHCOMMAND.
+
+  24 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> Fixed another fetch bug
+  where the download wouldn't cycle to alternate mirrors (it'd get stuck on
+  the first download location)
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre15 (24 Feb 2002)
+
+  24 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: some fixing of
+  the merge code; added automatic digest generation when "digest" is in
+  FEATURES; made the fetch() code not depend on a pre-existing digest.  This
+  should fix all known digest/fetch issues.
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre14 (23 Feb 2002)
+
+  23 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: If you have a
+  file that's hosted directly on our master ibiblio mirror, you can specify
+  it in SRC_URI as "http://mirror/myfile.tar.bz2".  "http://mirror" will be
+  expanded to the first mirror defined in GENTOO_MIRRORS, or our master ibiblio
+  mirror if no mirrors are defined.  Groovy.  This closes bug #627.
+  
+  23 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> make.globals, emerge,
+  portage.py: wget is no longer hardcoded; FETCHCOMMAND is enabled again, but
+  uses ${FILE} and ${URI} instead of ${x} and ${y} now.  Added download
+  resuming, which requires the definition of RESUMECOMMAND (added to
+  make.globals).  Updated spawn() so that when it's called as spawn(foo,free=1)
+  as an argument, sandboxing is turned off.  Replaced all calls to
+  os.system(foo) with spawn(foo,free=1), since os.system() messes with signal
+  handling.  Added a default SIGINT signal handler to portage.py so that ^C
+  interrupts are handled correctly (portage will immediately exit with a return
+  code of 1).  This has been tested and works for ebuild and emerge.  These
+  additions should also close bug #407 and #760.
+ 
+  23 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: spython -> python
+  fix; resolution of cvs merge conflict.  Removed edepend assignment bug
+  reintroduced in Geert's commit; added comment explaining why the new code is
+  needed so it doesn't get removed again ;)
+
+  22 Feb 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge: removed spurious cvs
+  conflict lines fixed bug in the cleanup code where different slots weren't
+  handled too well
+
+*portage-1.8.9_pre13 (22 Feb 2002)
+
+  22 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> various: fix /bin/sh
+  symlink merge problems and massively simplified movefile() code.  Added back
+  some emerge code so that "emerge --search rsync" doesn't run rsync.
+
+*portage 1.8.9_pre12 (22 Feb 2002)
+
+  22 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: everything
+  should now generate *lowercase* md5sums, fixing problems with digest 
+  backwards compatibility.
+  
+  22 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: changed
+  position of digest generation call so that "ebuild digest" now works if the
+  sources have not yet been downloaded.
+  
+*portage 1.8.9_pre11 (22 Feb 2002)
+
+  22 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: unmerging now
+  works correctly.
+
+*portage 1.8.9_pre10 (22 Feb 2002)
+
+  22 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: "emerge" didn't like the
+  new portage.py (fixed); A merge database bug (fixed).  Fixing the merge bug
+  should also result in merges happening much faster than before, maybe up to 3
+  times as fast.  We no longer resolve symlinks when testing protection paths.
+
+*portage 1.8.9_pre9 (21 Feb 2002)
+
+  21 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: moved entirety of Portage
+  download/digest code from ebuild.sh (bash) to portage.py (python).  No
+  support for custom FETCHCOMMANDs yet, but that's coming soon.  Good news is
+  that it appears to work well and allowed some cleanups and optimizations to
+  doebuild().  SYNC support added.  See cnf/make.conf for more info --
+  basically, "emerge rsync" (now callable via "emerge sync" as well) supports a
+  configurable "Portage server" that begins either with "rsync://" or "cvs://".
+  "emerge sync" is now not only a clean front-end, but a configurable front-end
+  to the Portage update process.  I also removed dependency checking from
+  'ebuild'.  This allowed me to removed some redundant code from portage.py,
+  and seemed fine to do since 'ebuild' is more and more becoming a low-level
+  developer tool.
+  
+  21 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: rewrite of cumulative USE
+  setting code so that the new FEATURES (what used to be called MAINTAINER) is
+  now cumulative and supports "-" and "-*" options.  FEATURES is expanded using
+  all config files, while USE ignores make.globals but uses everything else.
+  Optimization of a couple parts of doebuild().  Upgraded expandpath() and used
+  it in one place where it was removed accidentally (in the new merge code.)
+  Master category list is now stored externally in
+  ${PORTDIR}/profiles/categories for ease of maintenance.
+  
+  21 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: now supports the
+  EMERGE_OPTS make.conf variable for enabling emerge options by default.
+  Closes bug #605.
+  
+  21 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: dep_match() now
+  works with * deps (again?  Looks like the code got ripped out somehow); this
+  closes bug #490.
+  
+  21 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> global change from
+  "spython" -> "python", now that Portage is slick enough to update shared
+  libraries correctly.
+  
+  21 Feb 2002; Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org> bin/chkcontents,
+  man/chkcontents.1: New script to compare what's in a package's CONTENTS file
+  with what's actually on the filesystem.  Useful for discovering that a
+  package "collision" has occurred.
+
+  21 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh, portage.py:
+  Dependencies should be no longer checked during the "unpack" stage.  This
+  closes bug #231.  Added the $KV kernel version variable to ebuild.sh so that
+  it's available for all ebuilds.  This closes bug #599.
+  
+  21 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: S now defaults
+  to ${WORKDIR}/${P} if it isn't defined.  That's right.  Defining S is now
+  optional :)  This should eliminate around 1000 lines from our ports tree.
+  
+  20 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixed some
+  major bugs in the new merge/config protect code.  Merging and config
+  protection should now work.
+  
+  18 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge,
+  ebuild.sh : Rewrote merge code.  Should merge symlinks only *after* the
+  target has been merged (needs testing).  Added lots of comments.  Split
+  dblink.merge() into 2 new functions -- .walktree() and .mergeme().
+  Cleaned/optimized merging a good deal.  Added special "-*" USE variable to
+  unset *all* USE variables defined up until that point.  
+  
+  18 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge,
+  ebuild.sh : Fixed USE bug (config.reset() threw away our cumulative USE),
+  streamlined turbo dep calculations by moving edb cache entry creation to
+  ebuild.sh.  Started coding new dblink.merge() method that should be much
+  cleaner, faster and merge symlinks safely.
+ 
+  17 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py : Added
+  cumulative USE variable support.  The final USE var is calculated
+  cumulatively starting with make.profile, then make.conf, and then the
+  environment.  Any "-foo" option in USE will turn off a previously-defined USE
+  setting.  So, if you want to use the profile-default USE settings except turn
+  "X" off, you add 'USE="-X"' to /etc/make.conf and that's it.  This greatly
+  simplifies USE variable maintenance since developers can now easily add new
+  USE variables that default to 'on'.  Simply add the USE variable and then add
+  it to make.profile.  It will then be included in everyone's USE variables
+  automatically unless they explicitly "-newvar" in /etc/make.conf or in the
+  local environment.  This also enables easy one-shot disabling of USE
+  variables.  For example, to merge xchat without GNOME support (when "gnome"
+  is in your /etc/make.conf USE variable), simply type "USE="-gnome" emerge
+  net-irc/xchat".  This is a lot easier than temporarily tweaking
+  /etc/make.conf.
+ 
+  17 Feb 2002: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge : Added a quick hack
+  to cache ebuild dependency info using extended attributes on XFS filesystems.
+  Gives a factor of 10 speedup for dependency calculations.  Will look into a
+  generic caching solution that should offer similar performance increases on
+  all filesystems.  Note: the fact that this hack is on CVS means that emerge
+  is currently in a hyper-experimental state and shouldn't be used right now.
+ 
+  16 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge : added support for 'emerge
+  cat/pkg-version' instead of always having to require 'emerge cat/pkg'
+  
+  15 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge : reimplemented the display
+  of cleaned packages to clearly show all versions that are about to be removed
+  and which versions are going to stay  
+
+  13 Feb 2002; D.Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge :
+  added --emptytree option
+
+  13 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge, portage.py :
+  fixed little bug where emerge --clean rsync wasn't correctly handled anymore
+  implemented all new functionalities of emerge --clean, this adds --slots,
+  --versions and --all options together with world and system modes
+
+  12 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge, portage.py :
+  changed emerge --zap to emerge --clean
+  removed parts of the already implemented slots functionality to be able to
+  fall back to a more flexible implementation. Binary compatible slots will now
+  mostly influence emerge during the --clean operation
+
+  12 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
+  added fallback check in case UNMERGE_DELAY hasn't been defined in
+  make.globals or make.conf
+
+*portage 1.8.9_pre8 (18 Feb 2002)
+
+  12 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
+  changed the rebuild code to use depgraph instead, dramatically reducing code
+  duplication
+
+  11 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
+  changed indentation of a code part that wasn't at the right level. It got the
+  count of the non slot packages during --zap completely wrong
+
+*portage 1.8.9_pre7 (11 Feb 2002)
+
+  11 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  fixed bug in packagetree.dep_match() where a ~ dependency is returned as a
+  string instead of as a list
+  
+  11 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
+  - removed support for --all and world in 'emerge --unmerge', by default now
+    all matching packages are removed since with the new slots functionality
+    old package versions should not exists anymore
+  - colored package name red too when a blocking package is found during
+    pretend operation
+  - changed emerge invocation arguments to be in a new universal interface
+    format this has been decided to be :
+  'emerge --action --option --option [packageset]'
+  some features however don't respect this, but that's since they are not
+  package installation related and are easier to use as straight commands
+  eg: emerge rsync
+  - added UNMERGE_DELAY var to make.globals and support it in emerge to obtain
+    the number of seconds to wait
+  - support for NOCOLOR="yes" as wel as NOCOLOR="true"
+  - major speedups for emerge -search
+  - added formatted package descriptions of the matches from emerge --search
+    that nicely wrap at 80 chars
+  - rewrote retrieval of package descriptions to support descriptions that are
+    specified on multiple lines
+  - added support for 'noslot' to --zap, --update and --rebuild
+  
+  11 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> sandbox.c, libsandbox.c :
+  added checks to see if the files where information is written to are really
+  regular files and not symlinks
+
+*portage 1.8.9_pre6 (10 Feb 2002)
+
+  10 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
+  added support for 'emerge --unmerge world' which removes all old package
+  versions from the system
+  made 'emerge --unmerge' take binary compatibility slots into account, this
+  prevents that packages with different versions but also different slots, are
+  being unmerged
+  added support for "--verbose" in "emerge rebuild" and "emerge world" to
+  provide details about packages that aren't in the local tree anymore and to
+  notify the user about which packages don't support slots
+
+  9 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
+  added support for the rebuild mode which rebuilds all the packages on your
+  system for which a corresponding package could be found in to portage tree
+
+  9 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  renamed getEbuildPaths() or vartree to getebuildpaths()
+  fixed bug in the merging of binary packages
+
+  7 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> xpack.py :
+  added additional argument to tbz2.getfile() which allows default content to
+  be provided when the requested file couldn't be found in the tbz2 archive
+
+  7 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh :
+  added SLOT information as the third entry in the temporary deps file that is
+  generated during ebuild depend,
+  
+  7 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  obtain SLOT information from the deps file instead of using the slotgrab()
+  function, removed slotgrab() function, updated some comments
+
+  7 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
+  added SLOT information to the generated edepend var for binary packages
+
+*portage 1.8.9_pre5 (6 Feb 2002)
+
+  6 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  fixed bugs where the old instance wasn't unmerged correctly if slots are
+  identical, but ebuild version numbers not
+
+  6 Feb 2002; Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org> cnf/make.conf :
+  Copied proxy lines from make.globals (bug 431).
+
+  6 Feb 2002; Vitaly Kushneriuk <vitaly@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  added missing SLOT param to merge(...).
+  
+*portage 1.8.9_pre4 (6 Feb 2002)
+
+  6 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  fixed some bugs in the handling of PROVIDES and virtual packages together
+  with slots, they used code that wasn't upudated to the new dblink constructor
+  virtuals now use "" as slot, resulting in normally to same behaviour as what
+  has been done before.
+  
+  5 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
+  sorted the packages to unmerge since this makes package names with revision
+  endings appear before plain version numbers. This makes the unmerge code
+  first remove the old and non slot aware packages before removing the newer
+  alternative which is in fact exactly the same apart from the revision
+  identifier.
+
+*portage 1.8.9_pre3 (5 Feb 2002)
+
+  5 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  only let the backward compatibility algorithm kick in during unmerge since
+  it's impossible to correctly detect is in general.
+
+*portage 1.8.9_pre2 (5 Feb 2002)
+
+  5 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  fixed bug in the backward compatibility algorithm
+
+*portage 1.8.9_pre1 (5 Feb 2002)
+
+  4 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh, emerge, portage.py :
+  added binary compatibility slots, this also contains additional code to keep
+  the unmerging of packages backwards compatible.
+  
+  4 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  added back support for the "ebuild help" command which seems to have
+  disappeared somewhere along the updates
+  
+  4 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> make.conf, make.globals :
+  added description and default entry for the imlib USE variable
+  added flag to prozilla to disable prozilla's waiting for a user's keypress
+  when a failure occurs
+  
+  4 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> output.py :
+  bugfix, write read() function instead of red(), doh !
+  
+  4 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge, portage.py :
+  implemented the ! dependency which prevents incompatible packages to be
+  installed on the same system at the same time
+
+  4 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
+  most emerge invocation options now have alternative short flags
+  
+  4 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
+  emerge now doesn't unmerge the last version of an installed version by
+  default anymore, to really remove all instanced of packages the --all flag
+  has to be used, the --safe flag is deprecated
+  
+  3 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> output.py, emerge,make.globals :
+  all output can now be turned to black and white by using the functions in 
+  output.py, this determines the mode by checking to NOCOLOR variable in
+  make.conf or make.globals
+
+  3 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
+  made it possible to run emerge --help and --search as non root
+
+*portage 1.8.8-r1 (1 Feb 2002)
+
+  1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py, ebuild.sh, ebuild.5 :
+  added support for a pkg_setup() function which is executed before anything
+  else and can be typically used for package configuration actions or required
+  system checks
+
+  1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  implemented the noauto MAINTAINER flags for all relevant ebuild commands
+
+  1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  make env-update disregard backup files
+  
+  1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
+  added --pretend support instead of interactively asking to proceed,
+  also added a delay before unmerging though to be sure
+
+*portage 1.8.8 (1 Feb 2002)
+
+  1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
+  added --safe switch to complement the --unmerge option
+
+  1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  rewrote the packagename without category support to also graceously handle
+  deps specifiers at the beginning, this shouldn't be used in the ebuilds, but
+  are very handy when using emerge --unmerge
+
+  1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
+  added emerge --unmerge support
+
+  1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  added packagename without category support in the dep_match function
+
+*portage 1.8.7 (30 Jan 2002)
+
+  30 Jan 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  integrated and slightly adapted Brent Rahn's code to support package names
+  without category
+
+  30 Jan 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh :
+  integrated and fixed Azarah's patch to fix the wrongly generated archive size
+  in the digests
+
+*portage 1.8.6-r3 (28 Jan 2002)
+
+  28 Jan 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  disabled warnings about non existant config file paths
+
+  28 Jan 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
+  added verwilst pkgsearch code, which was turned into a seperate class and
+  refactored for clarity and execution speed
+
+  28 Jan 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  renamed _xxx vars to _prepart in Vitaly's code addition
+
+*portage 1.8.6-r2 (27 Jan 2002)
+
+  24 Jan 2002; Vitaly Kushneriuk <vitaly@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  Fixed version compare code Also added test script to test future versions.
+
+*portage 1.8.6-r1 (24 Jan 2002)
+
+  24 Jan 2002; Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@gentoo.org> dojar:
+  Fixed typos.
+  
+*portage 1.8.6 (23 Jan 2002)
+
+  22 Jan 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> libsandbox.c :
+  added an additional check for SANDBOX_ON to optimize the speed in the execvp
+  function call. Also removed error messages being printed when the PATH var
+  isn't set.
+  
+  20 Jan 2002; Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@gentoo.org> dojar :
+  added dojar shell command as a java JAR handler
+
+  17 Jan 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> :
+  The package chosen by "emerge sys-apps/shadow" now matches that chosen in an
+  emerge update or emerge system.  I forgot to add some "*" dep code to the
+  dep_nomatch() method; this is now fixed.
+
+*portage 1.8.5 (13 Jan 2002)
+
+  13 Jan 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> ebuilds.sh, portage.py:
+  added fine grained maintainer settings
+
+*portage 1.8.4 (13 Jan 2002)
+
+  12 Jan 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> :
+  "emerge sys-apps/bash/" now works. (trailing "/" stripped to make
+  tab-completion users happy)  This fixes bug #119
+
+  12 Jan 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> :
+  Portage should no longer bomb out if the current working directory doesn't
+  exist (has been deleted from underneath).
+  
+  12 Jan 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> :
+  added "--world" option for "emerge update".   This tells Portage to update
+  the base system *as well as* upgrade any packages that are currently
+  installed but have new versions available.  This is your standard full system
+  update command.  This fixes bug #122
+
+  12 Jan 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> :
+  Added an expandpath() cache which speeds up merging dramatically.
+
+*portage 1.8.3 (11 Jan 2002)
+
+  11 Jan 2002; Mikael Hallendal <hallski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh:
+  added functions econf and einstall. Also made src_compile having a default
+  implementation.
+
+*portage 1.8.2 (07 Jan 2002)
+
+  07 Jan 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> :
+  sandbox included in portage
+  
+*portage 1.8.1 (30 Dec 2001)
+
+  29 Dec 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> :
+  "emerge update" is now functional!  Although the algorithm really should be
+  sound, it is still considered in testing since we may need to tweak some
+  dependencies.
+
+  27 Dec 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> :
+  Removed objprelink from the default USE variable.
+
+*portage 1.8.0 (22 Dec 2001)
+
+  22 Dec 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> :
+  I messed up the "transparent .so library" update.  Included is the correct
+  fix, which seems to allow glibc to update on my system without any tricks.
+  I just merged a new glibc while in X, without using any of glibc's old
+  pkg_postinst/pkg_preinst hacks.
+  
+  21 Dec 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> make.defaults.5, make.conf.5 :
+  Moved make.defaults.5 to make.conf.5 and updated contents.
+
+*portage 1.7.8 (21 Dec 2001)
+
+  21 Dec 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  ebuild install doesn't throw away the compile directory if ebuild has been
+  changed and MAINTAINER is set; we now use mv -f to move files into location
+  on the filesystem, making our library install method even more robust. It
+  should now be totally safe to  upgrade glibc while in X and playing music
+  with xmms and surfing the Web and compiling 20 applications at once :)
+
+* portage 1.7.7 (14 Dec 2001)
+
+  14 Dec 2001; Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org>: portage.py :
+  movefile() now unlink()s the destination file first which solves shared
+  library install problems.
+
+* portage 1.7.6 (13 Dec 2001)
+
+  10 Dec 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  env_update() now generates an /etc/csh.env file in csh shell format.
+
+* portage 1.7.5 (13 Dec 2001)
+
+  10 Dec 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  added a little fix so a ~ dep isn't satisfied by a *much* later installed
+  version; i.e. ~media-libs/freetype-1.3.1 satisfied by
+  media-libs/freetype-2.0.5 being installed.
+  
+  30 Nov 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild :
+  added a KeyboardInterrupt handler so ^C'ing a running ebuild process doesn't
+  produce a Python traceback.
+
+* portage 1.7.4 (29 Nov 2001)
+
+  29 Nov 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  removed an unnecessary quirk in the code preventing virtual packages from
+  being in any other category but "virtual".
+  
+  25 Nov 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge :
+  info file detection code has been improved.  
+
+* portage 1.7.3 (20 Nov 2001)
+
+  20 Nov 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> pdb, pdb.cgi, xpak :
+  used /usr/bin/python instead of /usr/bin/spython.  Fixed.
+
+* portage 1.7.2 (13 Nov 2001)
+
+  13 Nov 2001; Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org> :
+  emake will now try to build in parallel, and if it fails, will retry in
+  non-parallel mode.
+  
+  13 Nov 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh :
+  an ebuild that used an archive with a name that was part of another archive
+  would cause Portage to mess up the digest check.  No longer.
+
+  31 Oct 2001; Donny Davies <woodchip@gentoo.org> make.conf, make.globals :
+  comments about merging the fetch programs before trying to use them.
+
+* portage 1.7.1 (30 Oct 2001)
+
+  30 Oct 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  I accidentally broke "=" deps by being sloppy when I added "*" deps.  Trivial
+  fix applied.
+
+* portage 1.7 (29 Oct 2001)
+
+  29 Oct 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  strange typo fix in the empty() digraph method.
+
+* portage 1.6.12 (29 Oct 2001)
+
+  29 Oct 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  "*" deps now implemented. "=sys/foo-1*" matches the latest 1.x version/rev of
+  sys/foo, but will not match a 2.x version.
+
+  26 Oct 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py :
+  various new categories added.
+
+Portage 1.6.11, released 18 Oct 2001
+====================================
+
+  *portage.py; device nodes are now not unmerged at all.
+
+
+Portage 1.6.10, released 18 Oct 2001 
+===================================
+
+  *ebuild.sh: A and AA fix; now any A="foo" lines in the ebuild are ignored,
+  allowing ebuilds with them to continue working.
+  
+  *portage.py: remove gnome-apps, gnome-office, gnome-libs, add gnome-extra
+  categories.
+
+  *ebuild.sh, portage.py: You can now use USE variables in SRC_URI to
+  conditionally include archives.  In MAINTAINER mode, all archives are
+  automatically included so that maintainers can check SRC_URIs and also
+  generate complete digests.  A new file-based DEPEND and RDEPEND-passing
+  mechanism has been added.
+  
+  *ebuild.sh Now adds filesize to the digest files
+
+Portage 1.6.9, released 15 Sep 2001
+===================================
+
+  *portage.py
+  unmerge() now does not touch device nodes.  Unlinking them or touching them
+  in any way is bad practice.
+
+
+Portage 1.6.8, released 12 Sep 2001
+===================================
+
+  *portage.py
+  movefile() will now unlink() destfile if it is a symlink.  Should fix 
+  problems where file gets created at symlink target rather than replacing
+  the symlink.
+
+  *queryhost.sh (agriffis)
+  Parallel pinging and other fixes.
+
+Portage 1.6.7, released 05 Sep 2001
+===================================
+
+  *portage.py
+  (last-minute fix)
+  CONFIG_PROTECT unmerge protection is now observed for symlinks, fifos and
+  device nodes.
+  
+  *portage.py
+  Fixes for unmerging CONFIG_PROTECTed files.  Protected files are now *not*
+  unlinked from the filesystem.  Messier but safer, and simplifies package
+  upgrades.
+
+  *emerge
+  Emerge output cleanups for GNU info directory generation.  New --verbose
+  mode; new CONFIG_PROTECT scanning feature to let people know when there are
+  config files to be updated.  New "--help config" docs to explain how to
+  do it.
+
+Portage 1.6.6, released 01 Sep 2001
+====================================
+
+  *portage.py
+  Upgraded directory merging over existing objects.  Existing symlinks that
+  point to existing directories will be kept and used as is; directories will
+  be used as-is; any other objects (broken symlinks, files) will be copied
+  to origfilename.backup and a ne directory will be created in its place.
+
+Portage 1.6.5, released 31 Aug 2001
+====================================
+  
+  *emerge 
+  Fixes for handling multiple ebuilds, packages and/or dependencies on
+  the command-line.
+
+  *portage.py 
+  An optimization to the digraph class so that the firstzero() method finds
+  matches in close to the order that keys were added to the digraph.