Release Notes; upgrade information mainly.
Features/major bugfixes are listed in NEWS
+portage-2.2.8
+==================================
+* Bug Fixes:
+ - Bug 488972 - sys-apps/portage-2.2.7:
+ "egencache --update --rsync" does not create metadata/timestamp.chk
+ - For a complete list of bug fixes, changes, See the Changelog installed at
+ /usr/share/doc/portage-2.2.8/ChangeLog.bz2
+
+
portage-2.2
==================================
* The python namespace for portage has been sanitized, all portage related code
is now contained within the portage namespace. External script should be
updated accordingly, though links exist for backward compability.
-* -* support in package.keywords was changed as it was inconsistent with
+* -* support in package.keywords was changed as it was inconsistent with
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS behavior (also see
http://dev.gentoo.org/~genone/docs/KEYWORDS.stupid).
Previously having -* in package.keywords matched packages with KEYWORDS="-*",
* emerge --search doesn't use regular expressions now anymore by default, so
emerge --search dvd+rw-tools now works as expected. Regular expressions can be enabled
- by prefixing the search string with %.
+ by prefixing the search string with %.
* emerge --depclean algorithm is much safer than the old one.
* emerge --newuse detects changes in IUSE that previously went undetected.
by the name of --alphabetical. Adding the option to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS
in make.conf will restore the old behaviour permanently.
* The deprecated --inject has been removed, use /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
-* The deprecated --upgradeonly has been removed, use /etc/portage/package.*
+* The deprecated --upgradeonly has been removed, use /etc/portage/package.*
instead.
-* 'emerge sync' has been deprecated, use 'emerge --sync' instead (same
+* 'emerge sync' has been deprecated, use 'emerge --sync' instead (same
for other actions)
* Tools that call emerge should override the EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS environment
variable or use the emerge --ignore-default-opts option.
* autouse (use.defaults) has been deprecated by specifying USE_ORDER in make.defaults
Users may still turn this back on by specifying USE_ORDER="env:pkg:conf:auto:defaults"
in make.conf. Interested in figuring out what use flags were turned off? Check out
- /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults and other use.defaults files that correspond
+ /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults and other use.defaults files that correspond
to your profile.