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| author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-06-17 06:02:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-06-17 06:02:48 +0000 |
| commit | 6b23c2c5826999ee2963256d87adf9faee54e0f7 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b05933decad91e4e35684ee11b99f32bafb5a71 /RELEASE-NOTES | |
| parent | 89b93139de68daab6145ed6e892c719a17ebf76a (diff) | |
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Add note about bug #226505. (trunk r10685)
svn path=/main/branches/2.1.2/; revision=10686
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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index c8e6581c8..f7b5664f2 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -4,6 +4,15 @@ Features/major bugfixes are listed in NEWS portage-2.1.5 ================================== +* The pkg_postinst phase is now called after the previous version of a + package has been removed. As a consequence, it is no longer possible + to call has_version in pkg_postinst to detect whether the current + install operation is an upgrade or downgrade. If this information is + needed during the pkg_postinst phase, do the has_version call in an + earlier phase (such as pkg_preinst) and store the result in a global + variable to be accessed by pkg_postinst when it is called. Bug #226505 + tracks all issues related to this phase execution order change. + * Blockers are now resolved automatically in many more cases than before. When it's safe, blocked packages are uninstalled automatically so that users are no longer inconvenienced with the |