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| author |   Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-04-21 05:14:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-04-21 05:14:53 +0000 |
| commit | 346feda72e1f9347926bc8a423475a01f31b0efd (patch) | |
| tree | 489236e35a2e16d885921e18489de923ec3cdf46 /RELEASE-NOTES | |
| parent | Fix portage version, should be >=2.1.5. (diff) | |
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Document FEATURES="metadata-transfer" changes some more.
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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 4b57835f..ead0d7f0 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -35,6 +35,12 @@ portage-2.2 portage-2.1.5 ================================== +* 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. + * 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 |