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authorZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2010-03-02 20:50:14 +0000
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2010-03-02 20:50:14 +0000
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Add a note about --rebuilt-binaries. (trunk r15411)
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Release Notes; upgrade information mainly.
Features/major bugfixes are listed in NEWS
+portage-2.1.8
+==================================
+* The new --rebuilt-binaries option will replace installed packages with binary
+ packages that have been rebuilt. Rebuilds are detected by comparison of
+ BUILD_TIME package metadata. This option is enabled automatically when using
+ binary packages (--usepkg or --getbinpkg) together with --update and --deep.
+
portage-2.1.7
==================================
* Default behavior for emerge commands has changed so that packages are only