From 346feda72e1f9347926bc8a423475a01f31b0efd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zac Medico Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:14:53 +0000 Subject: Document FEATURES="metadata-transfer" changes some more. svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=9934 --- RELEASE-NOTES | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'RELEASE-NOTES') diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 4b57835f1..ead0d7f0f 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -35,6 +35,12 @@ portage-2.2 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-1-g7c22