From 82748c6e95b20e19938c5da421eda0b13814d103 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zac Medico Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:58:33 +0000 Subject: Bug #254825 - Add a note about the need to use `ebuild --force manifest` to update distfiles digests. (trunk r12500) svn path=/main/branches/2.1.6/; revision=12510 --- RELEASE-NOTES | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'RELEASE-NOTES') diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 0ebeb7e0..d8dd1de3 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ portage-2.1.6 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. portage-2.1.5 ================================== -- cgit v1.2.3-65-gdbad