X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?p=portage.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=43d1797c28b211dc64a134fa1379c9d9f7186f5b;hp=2bd401523048795188831f3d9cb4d6e5a7dd8d40;hb=HEAD;hpb=a2253d1106f6ae6d27dd8492e49aea6725d5e85f diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2bd401523..43d1797c2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,28 +1,168 @@ News (mainly features/major bug fixes) +portage-2.2.1 +------------- + +* Add cgroups, ipc-sandbox, and network-sandbox FEATURES. + portage-2.2 ------------- -* Allow per-module setting of PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES +* Add extended set configuration via /etc/portage/sets.conf. See + /usr/share/portage/config/sets/portage.conf for examples. + +portage-2.1.11.20 +------------- +* Add support for EAPI 5. Refer to the PMS EAPI Cheat Sheet, portage's html + docs installed with USE=doc, or `man 5 ebuild` for more info about EAPI 5. +* Add support for FEATURES=preserve-libs which preserves libraries when the + sonames change during upgrade or downgrade, and the @preserved-rebuild + package set which rebuilds consumers of preserved libraries. +* Add link level dependency awareness to emerge --depclean and --prune actions + in order to protect against uninstallation of required libraries. Refer to + the --depclean-lib-check option in the emerge(1) man page. + +portage-2.1.11 +------------- + +* Add support for experimental EAPI "4-slot-abi". Refer to the corresponding + html documentation that is installed with USE=doc, and also to the emerge(1) + man page for information about the related --ignore-built-slot-operator-deps and + --rebuild-if-new-slot options. + +portage-2.1.10 +------------- + +* Improve handling of repositories/overlays for cases in which the same ebuild + is provided by multiple repositories but with different masking status, and + support for repository constraints on atoms (atom::repo) in configuration + files. +* Add emerge --rebuild-if-* options that trigger rebuilds of reverse + dependencies when packages are rebuilt or updated. Related --rebuild-exclude + and --rebuild-ignore options can be used to avoid rebuilds for specific + packages. +* Add emerge --reinstall-atoms, --useoldpkg-atoms, and --usepkg-exclude options + which can be used to alter selection rules for specific packages. +* Add FEATURES=parallel-install and ebuild-locks, allowing for greater + parallelization when installing packages (by using finer-grained locks). + +portage-2.1.9.27 +------------- + +* Add support for EAPI 4. Refer to the PMS EAPI Cheat Sheet, portage's html + docs installed with USE=doc, or `man 5 ebuild` for more info about EAPI 4. + Bug #273620 tracks EAPI 4 implementation in portage. + +portage-2.1.9 +------------- + +* There is a new ipc (inter-process communication) USE flag which is enabled + by default. This allows portage to communicate with running ebuild processes, + for things like best_version, has_version, and die calls in nested processes. + This flag should remain enabled unless it is found to be incompatible with a + specific profile or environment. When enabled, it fixes bug #278895, + bug #315615, and makes subshell die support more robust (so that repoman's + ebuild.nesteddie check is irrelevant). + +portage-2.1.8 +------------- +* The top-level __init__.py for the portage python package has been split into + many smaller python modules, making the code easier to navigate and allowing + small parts of the portage api to be imported with less overhead. + +portage-2.1.7.17 +------------- +* Add support for EAPI 3. This adds support for installation prefix, including + new EPREFIX, ED, and EROOT variables which are used by econf and einstall + helpers. Also, EAPI 3 adds xz extension support to the unpack helper. + +portage-2.1.7 +------------- + +* Add license visibility filtering (GLEP 23) +* Add --accept-properties option for emerge which allows you to use + --accept-properties=-interactive in order to temporarily exclude + interactive updates. +* Add support for Python 3.0. At least Python 2.6 is now required in order to + support the new syntax which is used by Python 3.0. + +portage-2.1.6 +------------- + +* Add support for a new EAPI="2" value. For more information about new EAPI + features, refer to the "Ebuild" chapter of the html documentation that is + installed with portage. +* Add PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND setting for make.conf which is called to adjust + IO priority on portage and it's subprocesses. +* Add emerge --jobs and --load-average options which specify behavior + for building packages in parallel or for generating metadata in parallel + with emerge --regen. +* Add emerge --keep-going option to continue as much as possible after + an error. When an error occurs, dependencies are recalculated for + remaining packages and any with unsatisfied dependencies are + automatically dropped. The --skipfirst option automatically drops + packages in the same way, and also drops any masked packages. +* Add git and subversion support for repoman. +* It is now possible to use `emerge ` to reinstall the package that + installed a particular file. Package contents entries are indexed to + improve performance. A command such as `emerge /lib/modules` can serve + as a decent substitute for module-rebuild. * Namespace sanitizing: move all portage related code into portage.* namespace, rename portage_foo modules to portage.foo (but keep symlinks for compability) -* Add license visibility filtering (GLEP 23) -* Add new elog module "echo" to simply display messages when emerge exits -* Enable "echo" and "save_summary" elog modules by default -* Fix -* handling in package.keywords to work as intended (reset the accepted - keywords list), also see RELEASE-NOTES. -* Experimental support for preserving old library files on package upgrades - based on FEATURES=preserve-libs, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! -* Make elog functionality available to python code * Add support for news items (GLEP 42) +* Add FEATURES=protect-owned which is identical to the collision-protect + feature except that files may be overwritten if they are not explicitly + listed in the contents of a currently installed package. + +portage-2.1.5 +------------- + +* 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. +* Blockers are now resolved automatically in many more cases + than before. When it's safe, blocked packages are uninstalled + automatically so that users are no longer inconvenienced with the + task. Automatically uninstalled packages are displayed in the merge + list, marked "uninstall" and highlighted in red. With the --tree + option enabled, it's possible to see which package(s) caused other + ones to be automatically uninstalled. +* The dependency resolver now has a feedback mechanism that helps make atom + selections more consistent with previous selections that have been added to + the graph. This solves some common cases of bug #1343. + +portage-2.1.4 +------------- + +* After the initial setup phase, the original ebuild and eclasses are no + longer needed because the same ebuild environment is reused for the + entire lifecycle of the package, including uninstallation. +* 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 ------------- +* Allow per-module setting of PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES +* Add new elog module "echo" to simply display messages when emerge exits * Add ** as new token for package.keywords to bypass the keyword visibility layer * USE_EXPAND variables such as LINGUAS support a * wildcard that will enable all of the corresponding flags that are listed in IUSE for a given package. USE_EXPAND wildcards such as linguas_* are supported in USE and package.use. +* The merge process preserves the modification timestamp of files that it + installs. The unmerge process will not uninstall files that are claimed by + another package in the same slot. +* PDEPEND is now installed as soon as possible so that it behaves more like + RDEPEND. This makes PDEPEND more useful for breaking the dependency cycles + that are sometimes triggered by RDEPEND and DEPEND. +* Enable "echo" and "save_summary" elog modules by default +* Fix -* handling in package.keywords to work as intended (reset the accepted + keywords list), also see RELEASE-NOTES. +* Make elog functionality available to python code portage-2.1.2 -------------