Add a note about interaction between FEATURES="metadata-transfer"

and eclasses from PORTDIR_OVERLAY that override eclasses from PORTDIR.
(trunk r10337)

svn path=/main/branches/2.1.2/; revision=10338

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 0addb163fa31b584b488da780a82b2845532e83a..c8e6581c87342ff73e402e56ae60bcf9e677dcbb 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -16,7 +16,11 @@ portage-2.1.5
   "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.
+  FEATURES="metadata-transfer" in make.conf. You should also enable
+  FEATURES="metadata-transfer" if you have any eclasses from PORTDIR_OVERLAY
+  that override eclasses from PORTDIR (in this case, you may have disabled
+  a relevant warning message by setting PORTAGE_ECLASS_WARNING_ENABLE="0" 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