Some news and release notes for 2.1_pre5.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=2757

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7503e007ba9ae16a64cbbbb53ccbe46d4b6794bd..559e8415ce380ab2dae16fe4c5dffe33365f0358 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -29,3 +29,8 @@ portage-2.1 (ongoing via pre releases)
 * Ebuild output is no longer cut off early when using PORT_LOGDIR.
 * Distfiles indirection- $DISTFILES access goes through a tmp dir to fail
   access to files not listed in SRC_URI.
+* Emerge now uses --resume to restart itself after portage upgrade.
+* Atomic file updates via the new atomic_ofstream class.
+* Global updates and fixpackages performance optimizations.
+* Tests show that file locking is now more reliable.
+* A bash call stack is printed when an ebuild dies in ebuild.sh.

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index f53a6c5aab1fcdd712f969745153ce2f1f86d4da..c20dfc9181c6f73b61babc5bb79bef7613f312d9 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -13,3 +13,5 @@ portage-2.1
   instead.
 * '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.