From: Zac Medico Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:53:42 +0000 (-0000) Subject: Add some notes about enhancements related to binary package support X-Git-Tag: v2.2_pre1~49 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=90e699f122f972db6d486a1a5398197f832810e8;p=portage.git Add some notes about enhancements related to binary package support that's now in 2.1.4. svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=9197 --- diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 8c1f6b3eb..6cd820756 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -28,6 +28,17 @@ portage-2.2 atoms in a set will be unmerged even if they are depended upon by other packages +portage-2.1.4 +================================== + +* Visibility filtering is now supported for binary packages, so masking behavior + is essentially equivalent to that of ebuilds. +* There is no need to have a complete portage tree available when installing binary + packages or uninstalling packages, but a warning message will still be displayed if + it appears that a valid profile is not available. +* The emerge --search action supports searching of both installed and binary packages + The --usepkg and --usepkgonly options control which repositories are searched. + portage-2.1.3 ==================================