Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.8.1 released

[MIkael Hallendal <hallski@gentoo.org>]

sön 2001-12-30 klockan 08.46 skrev slik@telusplanet.net:
> Daniel Robbins wrote:
> > 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Portage 1.8.1 has been released, which now includes working "emerge update"
> > functionality.  "emerge update" allows you to keep your key Gentoo Linux
> > system packages fully up-to-date.  To use it, first type "emerge --pretend
> > update" to
> 
> Will this download and apply patches to previous source releases, if
> they are available for a package? i.e. kernel,emacs,glibc,gnome,kde? are
> very large. (very handy for those with slow connections!)

This depends on how the person that upgraded the package did it. 

With this functionality all developers should try to use patches rather
than the full file (if they are available). I come to think of the
kernel-sources which always provides patches for updating.

For really large packages it might be nice if we did diff's and uploaded
to ibiblio.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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Mikael Hallendal
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden