| News (mainly features/major bug fixes) |
| |
| portage-2.1 (ongoing via pre releases) |
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| * FEATURES="confcache" integration; global caching to speed up configure calls, |
| requires dev-util/confcache |
| * elog framework and accompanying modules for logging ebuild warnings, errors |
| and general notices. Collects eerror/ewarn/elog/einfo messages. |
| * New elog function (should replace einfo in many cases) |
| * version syntax enhancements allowing multiple suffixes and a new 'cvs' |
| prefix for denoting "live sources" ebuilds. |
| * config files as directories enabling more flexible settings management. |
| * Addition of an register_die_hook method that allows ebuild/eclasses to |
| register functions to be called for better debugging on errors. |
| * Addition of pre and post user hookable functions for each ebuild phase, accessible |
| via portage bashrc. Example would be pre_src_unpack . |
| * cache refactoring- runtime improvement from 35% -> 65%. |
| * Intelligently handle and display USE_EXPAND-based IUSE variables. |
| * FEATURES="parallel-fetch". Download in parallel to compilation. |
| * Include a "changed or new" USE flag output when --verbose isn't specified. |
| * Support for splitting out debug information into separate files in |
| /usr/lib{,32,64}. |
| * exec subsystem refactoring (now with less bugs!) |
| * Added sha256 and rmd160 hashes for digests/manifests |
| * Make --emptytree only apply to ${ROOT} rather than always including /. |
| * Allow packages to be upgraded that are only depended on via a |
| "|| ( =cat/pkg-1* =cat/pkg-2* )" construct. |
| * Ebuild output is no longer cut off early when using PORT_LOGDIR. |
| * Distfiles indirection- $DISTFILES access goes through a tmp dir to fail |
| access to files not listed in SRC_URI. |
| * Emerge now uses --resume to restart itself after portage upgrade. |
| * Atomic file updates via the new atomic_ofstream class. |
| * Global updates and fixpackages performance optimizations. |
| * Tests show that file locking is now more reliable. |
| * A bash call stack is printed when an ebuild dies in ebuild.sh. |
| * New rsync option handling by using a generic PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS variable |