1 News (mainly features/major bug fixes)
6 * Add support for a new EAPI="2" value. For more information about new EAPI
7 features, refer to the "Ebuild" chapter of the html documentation that is
8 installed with portage.
9 * Add PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND setting for make.conf which is called to adjust
10 IO priority on portage and it's subprocesses.
11 * Add link level dependency awareness to emerge --depclean and --prune actions
12 in order to protect against uninstallation of required libraries.
13 * Add emerge --jobs and --load-average options which specify behavior
14 for building packages in parallel or for generating metadata in parallel
16 * Add emerge --keep-going option to continue as much as possible after
17 an error. When an error occurs, dependencies are recalculated for
18 remaining packages and any with unsatisfied dependencies are
19 automatically dropped. The --skipfirst option automatically drops
20 packages in the same way, and also drops any masked packages.
21 * Add subversion support for repoman.
22 * It is now possible to use `emerge <file>` to reinstall the package that
23 installed a particular file. Package contents entries are indexed to
24 improve performance. A command such as `emerge /lib/modules` can serve
25 as a decent substitute for module-rebuild.
26 * Namespace sanitizing: move all portage related code into portage.* namespace,
27 rename portage_foo modules to portage.foo (but keep symlinks for compability)
28 * Add license visibility filtering (GLEP 23)
29 * Experimental support for preserving old library files on package upgrades
30 based on FEATURES=preserve-libs
31 * Add support for news items (GLEP 42)
32 * Add support for generic package sets (also see RELEASE-NOTES)
37 * Blockers are now resolved automatically in many more cases
38 than before. When it's safe, blocked packages are uninstalled
39 automatically so that users are no longer inconvenienced with the
40 task. Automatically uninstalled packages are displayed in the merge
41 list, marked "uninstall" and highlighted in red. With the --tree
42 option enabled, it's possible to see which package(s) caused other
43 ones to be automatically uninstalled.
44 * The dependency resolver now has a feedback mechanism that helps make atom
45 selections more consistent with previous selections that have been added to
46 the graph. This solves some common cases of bug #1343.
51 * After the initial setup phase, the original ebuild and eclasses are no
52 longer needed because the same ebuild environment is reused for the
53 entire lifecycle of the package, including uninstallation.
54 * The emerge --search action supports searching of both installed and binary packages
55 The --usepkg and --usepkgonly options control which repositories are searched.
60 * Allow per-module setting of PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES
61 * Add new elog module "echo" to simply display messages when emerge exits
62 * Add ** as new token for package.keywords to bypass the keyword visibility layer
63 * USE_EXPAND variables such as LINGUAS support a * wildcard that will enable
64 all of the corresponding flags that are listed in IUSE for a given package.
65 USE_EXPAND wildcards such as linguas_* are supported in USE and package.use.
66 * The merge process preserves the modification timestamp of files that it
67 installs. The unmerge process will not uninstall files that are claimed by
68 another package in the same slot.
69 * PDEPEND is now installed as soon as possible so that it behaves more like
70 RDEPEND. This makes PDEPEND more useful for breaking the dependency cycles
71 that are sometimes triggered by RDEPEND and DEPEND.
72 * Enable "echo" and "save_summary" elog modules by default
73 * Fix -* handling in package.keywords to work as intended (reset the accepted
74 keywords list), also see RELEASE-NOTES.
75 * Make elog functionality available to python code
80 * Ebuilds support default USE flags via +flag in IUSE.
81 * New-style virtuals are now usable for packages that depend on themselves for
83 * Profiles support multiple inheritance and package.use.
84 * CONFIG_PROTECT and CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK both support files (not just
86 * Collision protection handles symlinks properly.
87 * Dependencies can be satisfied by installed packages that do not have matching
88 ebuilds in the portage tree or overlay.
89 * Emerge automatically ignores blockers that are made irrelevant by an upgrade.
90 * Emerge supports "reverse blocker detection" which means that the blockers of
91 installed packages will always be respected.
92 * Emerge builds a complete dependency graph in order to ensure correct merge
93 order and detection of circular dependencies.
94 * The world and system sets allow automatic update of all installed slots.
95 * DEPEND atoms support SLOT dependencies of the form ${CATEGORY}/${PN}:${SLOT}.
96 * Development: Extend PYTHONPATH support to allow overriding the hardcoded
97 /usr/lib/portage/pym for development/testing purposes
98 * New "finalize" hook for elog modules enabling modules to perform actions on
99 shutdown (like dispatching collected messages).
100 * New elog modules mail_summary and save_summary that act like the mail/save
101 modules except that they merge messages from multiple packages in a single
103 * New QA loglevel and matching eqawarn function
104 * `ebuild foo test` now always runs src_test if available
105 * If DOC_SYMLINK_DIR is set portage installs symlinks to html documention there
106 * FEATURES="test" automatically implies USE="test".
111 * Profiles support use.force, package.use.force, and package.use.mask files.
113 portage-2.1 (ongoing via pre releases)
116 * FEATURES="confcache" integration; global caching to speed up configure calls,
117 requires dev-util/confcache
118 * elog framework and accompanying modules for logging ebuild warnings, errors
119 and general notices. Collects eerror/ewarn/elog/einfo messages.
120 * New elog function (should replace einfo in many cases)
121 * version syntax enhancements allowing multiple suffixes and a new 'cvs'
122 version prefix for denoting "live sources" ebuilds.
123 * config files as directories enabling more flexible settings management.
124 * Addition of an register_die_hook method that allows ebuild/eclasses to
125 register functions to be called for better debugging on errors.
126 * Addition of pre and post user hookable functions for each ebuild phase, accessible
127 via portage bashrc. Example would be pre_src_unpack .
128 * cache refactoring- runtime improvement from 35% -> 65%.
129 * Intelligently handle and display USE_EXPAND-based IUSE variables.
130 * FEATURES="parallel-fetch". Download in parallel to compilation.
131 * Include a "changed or new" USE flag output when --verbose isn't specified.
132 * Support for splitting out debug information into separate files in
134 * exec subsystem refactoring (now with less bugs!)
135 * Added sha256 and rmd160 hashes for digests/manifests
136 * Make --emptytree only apply to ${ROOT} rather than always including /.
137 * Allow packages to be upgraded that are only depended on via a
138 "|| ( =cat/pkg-1* =cat/pkg-2* )" construct.
139 * Ebuild output is no longer cut off early when using PORT_LOGDIR.
140 * Distfiles indirection- $DISTFILES access goes through a tmp dir to fail
141 access to files not listed in SRC_URI.
142 * Emerge now uses --resume to restart itself after portage upgrade.
143 * Atomic file updates via the new atomic_ofstream class.
144 * Global updates and fixpackages performance optimizations.
145 * Tests show that file locking is now more reliable.
146 * A bash call stack is printed when an ebuild dies in ebuild.sh.
147 * New rsync option handling by using a generic PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS variable
148 * Manifest2 support that will allow digest-* files to be eliminated from the tree.