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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | RELEASE-NOTES | 11 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -32,10 +32,20 @@ portage-2.1.6 * Namespace sanitizing: move all portage related code into portage.* namespace, rename portage_foo modules to portage.foo (but keep symlinks for compability) * Add support for news items (GLEP 42) +* Add FEATURES=protect-owned which is identical to the collision-protect + feature except that files may be overwritten if they are not explicitly + listed in the contents of a currently installed package. portage-2.1.5 ------------- +* For extra careful dependency handling, emerge has a new --complete-graph + option that causes it to consider the deep dependencies of all packages from + the system and world sets. With this option enabled, emerge will bail out + if it determines that the given operation will break any dependencies of + the packages that have been added to the graph. Unlike the --deep option, + the --complete-graph option does not cause any more packages to be updated + than would have otherwise been updated with the option disabled. * 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 diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index d0437c02d..540809a43 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ portage-2.1.6 * FEATURES=fixpackages is now enabled by default via make.globals. Set FEATURES="-fixpackages" in make.conf if you'd like to disable it. +* File collision protection is now enabled by default via make.globals with + FEATURES=protect-owned. In order to protect files from be overwritten or + removed a inappropriate times, it is recommended to leave protect-owned + (or the similar collision-protect feature) enabled at all times. * The python namespace for portage has been sanitized, all portage related code is now contained within the portage namespace. External script should be updated accordingly, though links exist for backward compability. @@ -63,13 +67,6 @@ portage-2.1.5 the correct size. Run `tail -f /var/log/emerge-fetch.log` in a terminal to view parallel-fetch progress. Add FEATURES="-parallel-fetch" to /etc/make.conf if you want to disable this feature. -* For extra careful dependency handling, emerge has a new --complete-graph - option that causes it to consider the deep dependencies of all packages from - the system and world sets. With this option enabled, emerge will bail out - if it determines that the given operation will break any dependencies of - the packages that have been added to the graph. Unlike the --deep option, - the --complete-graph option does not cause any more packages to be updated - than would have otherwise been updated with the option disabled. portage-2.1.4.1 ================================== |