From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 20:50:14 +0000 (-0000)
Subject: Add a note about --rebuilt-binaries. (trunk r15411)
X-Git-Tag: v2.1.8~90
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=da0f211a45ca07ad20ef34583fc3b57cedae3535;p=portage.git

Add a note about --rebuilt-binaries. (trunk r15411)

svn path=/main/branches/2.1.7/; revision=15632
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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 8807d8f9e..26c8b5142 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 Release Notes; upgrade information mainly.
 Features/major bugfixes are listed in NEWS
 
+portage-2.1.8
+==================================
+* The new --rebuilt-binaries option will replace installed packages with binary
+  packages that have been rebuilt. Rebuilds are detected by comparison of
+  BUILD_TIME package metadata. This option is enabled automatically when using
+  binary packages (--usepkg or --getbinpkg) together with --update and --deep.
+
 portage-2.1.7
 ==================================
 * Default behavior for emerge commands has changed so that packages are only