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| author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-04-21 04:00:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-04-21 04:00:24 +0000 |
| commit | 81db3e467cd7f8bb94fcdf96d5fb4acf27bf382b (patch) | |
| tree | 4307c7dbbdb26e455ec60aa34714fc89f62cebaa /man/portage.5 | |
| parent | c829201cd5e92666b3610b46dec0391e62fbe16e (diff) | |
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* Make portdbapi.aux_get() automatically pull pre-generated metadata
directly from the metadata/cache/ directory when metadata-transfer
is not enabled in FEATURES. This makes all cache modules behave
similar to existing metadata_overlay module, except when
FEATURES="metadata-transfer" has been explicitly enabled.
* Remove metadata-transfer from FEATURES in make.globals so that it's
no longer enabled by default. Users will be happy about this since
the "Updating Portage cache" part of emerge --sync can be more time
consuming than the rsync run itself. It's also nicer when when using
PORTDIR over nfs or bind mounted in a chroot since there's no need
to run emerge --metadata.
* Update FEATURES="metadata-transfer" docs to warn users of the rsync
tree to modify eclases in PORTDIR_OVERLAY if necessary instead of
doing it directly in the rsync tree.
* Relevant updates to /etc/portage/modules docs.
svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=9930
Diffstat (limited to 'man/portage.5')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/man/portage.5 b/man/portage.5 index 0599c5e09..792491b8e 100644 --- a/man/portage.5 +++ b/man/portage.5 @@ -384,18 +384,15 @@ override. .I Example: .nf -portdbapi.auxdbmodule = portage.cache.metadata_overlay.database -.fi - -The metadata_overlay cache module makes it possible to disable -FEATURES="metadata-transfer" in \fBmake.conf\fR(5). When the user initially -enables metadata_overlay in /etc/portage/modules, all of the cache files -contained in /var/cache/edb/dep/${PORTDIR} must be manually removed in order -to avoid unecessary cache regeneration. In addition, users of the -metadata_overlay module must never modify eclasses in ${PORTDIR} because -portage will not be able to detect that cache regeneration is necessary. If -the user would like to modify eclasses, it is safe to use metadata_overlay -together with PORTDIR_OVERLAY in \fBmake.conf\fR. +portdbapi.auxdbmodule = portage.cache.sqlite.database +.fi + +After changing the portdbapi.auxdbmodule setting, it may be necessary to +transfer or regenerate metadata cache. Users of the rsync tree need to +run `emerge \-\-metadata` if they have enabled FEATURES="metadata-transfer" +in \fBmake.conf\fR(5). In order to regenerate metadata for repositories +listed in \fBPORTDIR_OVERLAY\fR or a cvs tree, run `emerge \-\-regen` +(see \fBemerge\fR(1)). .TP .BR package.keywords Per\-package KEYWORDS. Useful for mixing unstable packages in with a normally |