[gentoo-dev] masked portage 1.8.9_pre1

[gentoo-dev] masked portage 1.8.9_pre1

[Geert Bevin]

Hi all,

a test version of portage 1.8.9 has been released as pre1. Below is an
excerpt of the changelog. Quite some internal changes have been made,
therefor it would be great if anyone that has the time would check these
features in detail and report any comments, remarks or bugs.

*portage-1.8.9_pre1 (5 Feb 2002)

  5 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage-1.8.9_pre1.ebuild :
  Install emerge to /usr/bin instead of /usr/sbin.

  4 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage-1.8.9_pre1.ebuild,
  files/digest-portage-1.8.9_pre1, files/portage-1.8.9_pre1.tar.bz2 :
  
  - Reinstated support for the "ebuild help" command which seems to have
    disappeared somewhere along prior updates.
  - Added description and default entry for the imlib USE variable.
  - Added flag to prozilla to disable prozilla's waiting for a user's 
    keypress when a failure occurs.
  - Added alternative short flags for most emerge invocation options.
  - Emerge now doesn't unmerge the last version of an installed version 
    by default anymore, to really remove all instanced of packages the 
    --all flag has to be used, the --safe flag is deprecated.
  - Made it possible to run emerge --help and --search as non root.
  - All emerge output can now be turned to black and white by setting 
    the NOCOLOR variable in make.conf or make.globals to true.
  - Implemented the ! dependency for ebuild authors which prevents 
    incompatible packages from being installed on the same system at the
    same time.
  - Added binary compatibility slots. By default packages now install to
    their version number without the release number. Ebuild authors of
    packages that are expected to remain binary compatible across
    version changes, should add the SLOT variable to their ebuilds. The 
    SLOT variable should contain a number. When a new package version is
    compatible with an older one, the same number should be used for the
    SLOT variable, this makes portage automatically unmerge the older 
    package for which the new one is a drop-in replacement.

*portage-1.8.8-r1 (1 Feb 2002)

Best regards,

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