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| -rw-r--r-- | RELEASE-NOTES | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/emerge.1 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/portage.5 | 4 |
3 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 0ee4869ce..28e34b2e2 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ Features/major bugfixes are listed in NEWS portage-2.1.5 ================================== +* The metadata-transfer feature is now disabled by default. This disables the + "Updating Portage cache" routine that used to run at the tail end of each + `emerge --sync` operation. If you use something like the sqlite module and + want to keep all metadata in that format alone (useful for querying), enable + FEATURES="metadata-transfer" in make.conf. + * The parallel-fetch feature is now enabled by default. It is optimized to avoid doing redundant checksums for previously downloaded files that have the correct size. Run `tail -f /var/log/emerge-fetch.log` in a diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1 index db7b409e9..6d7534122 100644 --- a/man/emerge.1 +++ b/man/emerge.1 @@ -131,6 +131,8 @@ tail end of an rsync update using \fBemerge \-\-sync\fR. This process populates the cache database that portage uses for pre-parsed lookups of package data. It does not populate cache for the overlays listed in PORTDIR_OVERLAY. In order to generate cache for overlays, use \fB\-\-regen\fR. +In versions of portage >=2.1.5 the \-\-metadata action is totally unnecessary +unless the user has enabled FEATURES="metadata-transfer" in \fBmake.conf\fR(5). .TP .BR "\-\-prune " (\fB\-P\fR) \fBWARNING: This action can remove important packages!\fR Removes all but the diff --git a/man/portage.5 b/man/portage.5 index 5d953db83..aabff9f88 100644 --- a/man/portage.5 +++ b/man/portage.5 @@ -395,7 +395,9 @@ 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)). +(see \fBemerge\fR(1)). If you use something like the sqlite module and want +to keep all metadata in that format alone (useful for querying), enable +FEATURES="metadata-transfer" in \fBmake.conf\fR(5). .TP .BR package.keywords Per\-package KEYWORDS. Useful for mixing unstable packages in with a normally |