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diff --git a/man/portage.5 b/man/portage.5 index 51e6f32d8..f124a10d2 100644 --- a/man/portage.5 +++ b/man/portage.5 @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ virtuals .BR /etc/portage/ .nf bashrc +modules package.mask package.unmask package.keywords @@ -300,6 +301,28 @@ virtual/aspell\-dict app\-dicts/aspell\-en If needed, this file can be used to set up a special environment for ebuilds, different from the standard root environment. The syntax is the same as for any other bash script. + +.TP +.BR modules +This file can be used to override the metadata cache implementation. In +practice, portdbapi.auxdbmodule is the only variable that the user will want to +override. + +.I Example: +.nf +portdbapi.auxdbmodule = 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. + .TP .BR package.mask A list of DEPEND atoms to mask. Useful if specific versions of packages do |