| Release Notes for portage-2.2_pre1 |
| ================================== |
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| New features / Major changes |
| ---------------------------- |
| * elog framework: This finally adds a flexible way to log all einfo, ewarn and |
| eerror messages as well as adding a new elog command for ebuilds. New ebuilds |
| should use elog instead of einfo for delivering important information as |
| einfo messages will not be logged by default. [genone] |
| * elog modules: Together with the framework some basic modules implementing |
| common logging facilities are shipped, these include: |
| - mod_syslog for relaying messages to syslog |
| - mod_mail for sending messages to a predefined mail adress |
| - mod_save for saving messages to a file |
| - mod_custom for processing messages with a custom command |
| NOTE: The elog interfaces are still subject to change, so don't rely on the |
| exact format yet. [genone] |
| * version syntax enhancements: The version parsing and comparison code was |
| completely rewritten and now supports two extensions to previous versions: |
| - a cvs prefix to denote live cvs (or svn or any other vcs) ebuilds, so now |
| you can have a package foo with the ebuilds foo-1.ebuild and |
| foo-cvs.1.ebuild in the same directory. cvs ebuilds will always be |
| ranked higher than any non-cvs ebuild. |
| - multiple suffixes now allow for constructions like foo-1.0_pre1_rc5 |
| Also the new code is now separated into its own module portage_versions.py |
| with no dependencies on the main portage module. [genone] |
| * recursive config files: Most of the config files in /etc/portage can now |
| also be directories, if they are then portage will recursively use all |
| files in them. So you could have /etc/portage/package.keywords/kde/base |
| and /etc/portage/package.keywords/gnome instead of a single package.keywords. |
| This applies to the following files: |
| - package.keywords |
| - package.mask |
| - package.unmask |
| - package.use |
| - mirrors |
| [genone] |
| |
| Bug fixes / Minor Changes |
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| * Removal of "masked by -*" message [genone] |
| * Fixed some minor screwup in the sort algorithm for versions [genone] |
