Hi, I read documentation about new features for configure profiles, thanks. In the past I open a discussion about permit use of annotation :: under profiles package.mask to mask from overlay for example gentoo/upstream packages. Is now supported by eapi 7? Thanks in advance. G. On Sun, May 6, 2018, 19:37 Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > Great news :) > > W.r.t the new support for cross building, it would be grep if the eclass > user could make use of > the new --prefix support in recent shadow utilities so users can be added > to cross ROOT. > > Jocke > > On Sun, 2018-05-06 at 18:52 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > EAPI 7 has been approved by the Council one week ago [1]. The latest > Portage version in ~arch (2.3.36) supports it, and the Infra team has > upgraded the rsync master so that metadata cache generation will work > correctly. > > Therefore, EAPI 7 ebuilds can be committed to the Gentoo repository > from now on. (Make sure that all inherited eclasses are supporting the > new EAPI, though.) > > Some pointers to documentation: > > - Package Manager Specification, in PDF and HTML format: > https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/latest/ > or install ~app-doc/pms-7_p20180430 > > - List of changes in EAPI 7: > https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/7/pms.html#x1-179000E > > - EAPI Cheat Sheet (print out, and fold to a leaflet): > https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/7/eapi-cheatsheet.pdf > > - mgorny's (unofficial) guide: > > https://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/articles/the-ultimate-guide-to-eapi-7.html > > Ulrich > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/654262 > > >