Release Notes; upgrade information mainly. Features/major bugfixes are listed in NEWS portage-2.2 ================================== * Portage now warns if an ebuild repository does not have a name, as several new features in 2.2 make use of or require named repositories. The repository name is stored in profiles/repo_name in each repository. * Package set support: There are several important notes regarding package sets: - setnames have to be prefixed with @ (exceptions: 'world' and 'system' can be used without the prefix) - they may currently only include simple and versioned atoms or other sets, use conditionals or any-of constructs aren't possible yet - sets can be referenced either in other file-based sets or as argument to emerge, but not in ebuilds, config files or other tools at this time. - packages won't be unmerged if they are referenced by an installed package set (with the exception of the world set, and installed being determined by the world_sets file). * "world" now includes separate "selected" and "system" sets, where the "selected" set includes packages listed in /var/lib/portage/world and nested sets that may be listed /var/lib/portage/world_sets. 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 (--usepkgonly or --getbinpkgonly) together with --update and --deep. portage-2.1.7 ================================== * Default behavior for emerge commands has changed so that packages are only updated when necessary. In order to ensure that all packages are updated when possible, you must now specify the -u/--update option. See bug #275945 for the rationale behind this change. * If using python3, you may notice that some types of program output which require a tty device (like the wget progress bar) will be disabled. This is due to an upstream python issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue5380. See bug #287648 for more information. * Licenses in the @EULA license group are now masked by the default ACCEPT_LICENSE setting. You can unmask all licenses by setting ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" in /etc/make.conf. See the make.conf(5) man page for more information about ACCEPT_LICENSE. portage-2.1.6.12 ================================== * If you want overlay eclasses to override eclasses from other repos then see the portage(5) man page for information about the new layout.conf and repos.conf configuration files. portage-2.1.6 ================================== * The default behavior has changed for `emerge world` and `emerge system` commands. These commands will reinstall all packages from the given set unless an option such as --noreplace, --update, or --newuse is specified. * FEATURES=fixpackages is now enabled by default via make.globals. Set FEATURES="-fixpackages" in make.conf if you'd like to disable it. * File collision protection is now enabled by default via make.globals with FEATURES=protect-owned. In order to protect files from be overwritten or removed a inappropriate times, it is recommended to leave protect-owned (or the similar collision-protect feature) enabled at all times. If you want to disable collision protection completely (not recommended), then you need to ensure that neither protect-owned nor collision-protect are enabled. * 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 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS behavior (also see http://dev.gentoo.org/~genone/docs/KEYWORDS.stupid). Previously having -* in package.keywords matched packages with KEYWORDS="-*", now it resets the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS list for the given atom like it does when used in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS. For packages that don't specify any other KEYWORDS you can use the new ** token as documented in portage(5) to disable KEYWORDS filtering completely. * When generating manifests, existing distfiles digests will not be updated in cases when the current file in $DISTDIR does not match. In order to force digests to be updated, run `ebuild --force manifest`. This is a safety measure which protects valid distfiles digests from being accidentally replaced by invalid digests. * If you have overridden FETCHCOMMAND or RESUMECOMMAND variables, for compatibility with EAPI 2, you must ensure that these variables are written such that the downloaded file will be placed at \"\${DISTDIR}/\${FILE}\". Refer to make.conf(5) for information about FETCHCOMMAND and RESUMECOMMAND. portage-2.1.5 ================================== * The pkg_postinst phase is now called after the previous version of a package has been removed. As a consequence, it is no longer possible to call has_version in pkg_postinst to detect whether the current install operation is an upgrade or downgrade. If this information is needed during the pkg_postinst phase, do the has_version call in an earlier phase (such as pkg_preinst) and store the result in a global variable to be accessed by pkg_postinst when it is called. Bug #226505 tracks all issues related to this phase execution order change. * The metadata-transfer feature is now disabled by default. This disables the "Updating Portage cache" routine that used to run at the tail end of each `emerge --sync` operation. If you use something like the sqlite module and want to keep all metadata in that format alone (useful for querying), enable FEATURES="metadata-transfer" in make.conf. You should also enable FEATURES="metadata-transfer" if you have any eclasses from PORTDIR_OVERLAY that override eclasses from PORTDIR (in this case, you may have disabled a relevant warning message by setting PORTAGE_ECLASS_WARNING_ENABLE="0" in make.conf). * The parallel-fetch feature is now enabled by default. It is optimized to avoid doing redundant checksums for previously downloaded files that have the correct size. Run `tail -f /var/log/emerge-fetch.log` in a terminal to view parallel-fetch progress. Add FEATURES="-parallel-fetch" to /etc/make.conf if you want to disable this feature. portage-2.1.4.1 ================================== * If you have an overlay then you should remove **/files/digest-* files (Manifest1) because they are no longer supported. * If earlier versions of portage will be used to generate manifests for your overlay then you should add a file named manifest1_obsolete to the root of the repository in order to disable generation of the Manifest1 digest files. 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. portage-2.1.3 ================================== * Portage now requires >=python-2.4, but doesn't need pycrypto anymore if >=python-2.5 is installed and openssl supports the rmd160 hash. * The "save_summary" and "echo" elog modules are now enabled by default. Setting PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM in make.conf will override this, so if you don't want elog set PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="" in make.conf * The unmerge process will remove any file that is not claimed by another package in the same slot and is not protected by CONFIG_PROTECT, even if the modification time or checksum differs from the file that was originally installed. The old behavior is still available by adding -unmerge-orphans to FEATURES. * The world file now supports slot atoms such as 'sys-devel/gcc:3.4'. In some cases, emerge --depclean may remove slots that it would not have removed in the past. The emerge --noreplace command can be used to add an atom to the world file and prevent matching packages from being removed. A slot atom will be recorded in the world file for any atom that is precise enough to identify a specific slot. * For safer operation, emerge --prune will not unmerge packages that have reverse dependencies. Use --verbose to display reverse dependencies. Use --nodeps to completely ignore dependencies. * emerge --depclean now accepts atoms and will unmerge only the specified packages if nothing depends on them. Use --verbose to display reverse dependencies. portage-2.1.2 ================================== * Depending on the number of packages installed, users may notice a difference in the time taken for dependency calculations. This performance penalty is due to the addition of important new features which include the ability to detect reverse blockers, the building of a complete dependency graph, and the ability to use installed packages to satisify dependencies even after their ebuilds have been removed from the portage tree. * emerge does not necessarily update build time dependencies that are not strictly required. See the --with-bdeps option in the emerge(1) man page. portage-2.1.1 ================================== * 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 %. * emerge --depclean algorithm is much safer than the old one. * emerge --newuse detects changes in IUSE that previously went undetected. portage-2.1 ================================== * new cache framework, breaking all old cache modules. If you're having problems with portage_db_cdb, this is likely the cause. * USE flag output ordering has changed. The old ordering is now an option 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.* 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. * rsync option handling has been redesigned, instead of RSYNC_* variables use PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS from now on. * 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 to your profile.