Add some notes for the parallel-fetch feature and the new --complete-graph

option for emerge. (trunk r9848)

svn path=/main/branches/2.1.2/; revision=9849

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 611d1a3788dc1015695b8e0f578437ed69921f82..0ee4869ce5b3d4343357b99568f083baec8a1458 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -1,6 +1,23 @@
 Release Notes; upgrade information mainly.
 Features/major bugfixes are listed in NEWS
 
+portage-2.1.5
+==================================
+
+* 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
+  terminal to view parallel-fetch progress. Add FEATURES="-parallel-fetch"
+  to /etc/make.conf if you want to disable this feature.
+
+* For extra careful dependency handling, emerge has a new --complete-graph
+  option that causes it to consider the deep dependencies of all packages from
+  the system and world sets. With this option enabled, emerge will bail out
+  if it determines that the given operation will break any dependencies of
+  the packages that have been added to the graph. Unlike the --deep option,
+  the --complete-graph option does not cause any more packages to be updated
+  than would have otherwise been updated with the option disabled.
+
 portage-2.1.4.1
 ==================================
 

diff --git a/man/make.conf.5 b/man/make.conf.5
index 7a7febcbd804d1ad893da72f4c4eec40c48b0c77..4d012c060a2ab4f7846951d536c4249af70ab13a 100644 (file)
--- a/man/make.conf.5
+++ b/man/make.conf.5
@@ -242,7 +242,9 @@ Prevents the stripping of binaries that are merged to the live filesystem.
 Disables xterm titlebar updates (which contains status info).
 .TP
 .B parallel\-fetch
-Fetch in the background while compiling.
+Fetch in the background while compiling. Run
+`tail \-f /var/log/emerge\-fetch.log` in a
+terminal to view parallel-fetch progress.
 .TP
 .B sandbox
 Enable sandbox\-ing when running \fBemerge\fR(1) and \fBebuild\fR(1).