  # ChangeLog for Portage; the Gentoo Linux ports system 
  # Copyright 2000-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.; Distributed under the GPL v2
  # $Id: ChangeLog,v 1.456 2003/05/29 08:36:16 carpaski Exp $
  
  *portage-2.0.48-r1 (29 May 2003): Touchups.
  
    29 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> g-cpan.pl: Fixed by
  jrray as it broke in 2.0.48.
  
    29 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Quick fixes
  to a couple of rare bugs. Added some quoting to $S. Removed the DISTCC
  hosts variable. Moved build-info's creation around so that it actually
  works for non-portage-compiled merges.
  
    29 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Quick fix for
  the files-dir-not-added lack of notification. Added in a fix for a possible
  security problem with the repoman commit messages and symlink-attacks.
  
    29 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> cnf/*: Added in a diff
  from 'Danny' that contained a SYNC cleanup and expanded explanation. :)
  
    29 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> output.py: Fixed the
  TitleBar and unset TERM issues.
  
    29 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added new
  functions to aid in determining virtuals. cpv_all() added to dbapi -- it
  displays all versions instead of just package names -- cp_all() now calls
  this function to gain it's data. get_provide() and get_all_provides() added
  to collect PROVIDE info from vartree packages. getallcpv() added to vartree
  to reference the dbapi call. Always set ignoring errors on findname now.
  Cleaned up the virtuals-trimming code. Don't mention the fixpackages script
  if the user doesn't have any packages.
  
  *portage-2.0.48 (20 May 2003): Cleanups Release.
  
    20 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Tiny cleanups.
    Fixed the profile information in emerge -V for symlinks that have a
    trailing '/' in them. Fix 'emerge -s' filesize lookups to use a new
    function finddigest() from dbapi.
  
    20 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emergehelp.py: Updated.
  
    20 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> etc-update: Small
    fixups for pager issues. Made the nothing-to-do exit message 'happier'.
  
    20 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> extra-functions.sh:
    Beat the debian-utils requirement out of the functions. Prefers them,
    but falls back to already-existing tools otherwise.
  
    20 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> fixpackages: 75%
    overhaul to match the new handling of update code.
  
    20 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> quickpkg: Understands
    "--help" as an option now.
  
    20 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> man/*: Simple updates.
  
    20 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: fetch()
    now calculates md5sums when doing a fetchonly. finddigest() added for
    finding digests -- gets overlay digests if existing. Binary packages
    are  only updated when explicitly requested via fixpackages as a command
    or a FEATURES setting. Clear the dircache after portage initializes  to
    reduce memory consumption.
  
  *portage-2.0.48_pre6 (12 Apr 2003): General cleanups and fixes.
  
    12 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Additions
    to better handle overlay ebuilds with regard to metadata cache. aux_get
    calls findname2() which returns (location,in_overlay) -- findname() is
    a wrapper for findname2(). Extra debugging fixes for findname() issues.
  
    12 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Code
    cleanups and a chgrp/chown pass to move all portage-owned files to
    root ownership -- Two pass to leave specific-group and specific-owner
    settings alone.
    
    12 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: code cleanups
    and comment touchups.
    
    12 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emergehelp.py: Updates
    for --debug, --digest, and --skipfirst.
  
    12 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> g-cpan.pl: Added more
    arches to the KEYWORDS. Made it copy files back to distfiles.
  
    12 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> prepstrip: Removed ${D}
    from the outputted filenames during stripping.
    
    12 May 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> man/* cnf/*:
    documentation updates.
  
  *portage-2.0.48_pre5 (29 Apr 2003): Cleanups and polish.
  
    29 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Another
    typo fix.
  
  *portage-2.0.48_pre4 (28 Apr 2003): Cleanups and polish.
  
    28 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Quick fix
    for a traceback/typo in the 'emerge -C' code.
  
  *portage-2.0.48_pre3 (28 Apr 2003): Cleanups and polish.
  
    28 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: listdir()
    now takes care of non-existance errors instead of propagating them --- can
    take EmptyOnError=1 as a param to return [] instead of None. All calls to
    portage's listdir() have been updated to the new conventions. listdir()
    ignores .# files from cvs now when ignorecvs=1 is set. Fixes for another
    world-depleting bug. If findname() is passed a virtual, it now informs
    the user to report a bug, instead of weird tracebacks. Added code in
    dblink::unmerge() to remove stale virtual entries when set under trimworld.
  
    28 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> etc-update: enabled the
    diff pager again.
  
    28 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: --changelog
    implies --pretend. Spelling fixes. Added --skipfirst to allow the first
    package in a resume operation to be skipped over --- allows -e to rebuild
    almost everything, even under weird circumstances. Located another missed
    world-file-depleting bug in unmerge() calls. Included a patch to fix an
    off-by-one bug in depclean.
  
    27 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fix for
    listdir() running on a non-existant dir -- returns None. Sets generated
    files to the portage group -- Manifest & digests. Some coloring additions.
    Handling of 'strict' features added. TEMPORARY addition of 'manifest' USE
    flag so this can go mainstream now. Fixes in doebuild() to get unmerge
    working again for ebuild. Debug code added to findname to help figuring
    out the seemingly random tracebacks -- suspect is pkgsplit(). Unmasking
    code for package.mask added in -- works just like mask, and can override
    specific versions or ranges -- One per line: /etc/portage/package.unmask.
    Security fix for python cPickle code -- mtimedb could create arbitrary
    execution of code bug. Global update notices/info. Fixes for loops over
    listdir() that depended upon raised errors to determine code flow.
  
    27 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> cvstree.py: Added in
    'removed' status checks.
    
    27 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Added in more
    cvs checks. /space/cvsroot is now complained about.
  
    27 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Added in
    PORTAGE_CALLER support to identify it as a 'do_update()' candidate.
  
    27 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> dodoc: Check sizes to
    prevent 0 byte files from being added.
  
  *portage-2.0.48_pre2 (10 Apr 2003): Digests & Repoman
  
    16 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Added CVS/Root
    checks to ensure Manifests will be correct. Fixed local use-flag bug.
    Commented out the no-stable code, as it can't be implemented well as is.
  
    16 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> prepstrip: Fixed a
    problem where files were not being stripped.
  
    16 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Added in
    a call to 'make -n' when under the --debug flag.
  
  *portage-2.0.48_pre1 (10 Apr 2003): Digests & Repoman
  
    10 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> prepstrip: fix it so
    that it actually strips and provides reasonable info.
    
    10 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Added short
    option for pretend. Added pretend capability to the majority of the
    commit code. Bug fix for local IUSE code. Added in support for removed
    cvs files.
    
    10 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Changed
    'manifest' to 'Manifest'. Removed the requirement that Manifests exist --
    complain about it, but only die if 'strict' is set.
  
  *portage-2.0.47-r15 (09 Apr 2003): New digests/manifests, touchups.
  
    09 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> bin/*: Fixes for Cross-
    compiling.
    
    09 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Quick touchups
    in the category- and repository-level manifest calls.
    
    09 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> cnf/*: Added/sync'd
    PORTAGE_NICENESS.
  
    09 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixed hole
    in the listdir code that occured on cache expiration in the -r14 changes.
  
  *portage-2.0.47-r14 (09 Apr 2003): 
  
    09 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> bin/*: Removed DEBUGBUILD
    in favor of FEATURES/RESTRICT settings of nostrip.
    
    09 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild: Removed root
    restriction so that digests can be made as non-root.
    
    09 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Added niceness
    
    09 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Added the
    nostable/allmasked check in. Small cleanups. Move to 'manifests' instead
    of enhanced digests. Added filters on $Id and $Header. Fixed commitmsg
    and added short options.
    
    09 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> cvstree.py: More features
    added. pathdata() provides dir or file info. isadded() gives cvs status.
    
    09 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: listdir()
    enhancements. Debug removal. Broke up the digest creation functions to
    make them a little more generic. Added manifest code into the digest
    calls. Moved code in doebuild() around to allow for non-root calls for
    devs and repoman. Added 'PORTAGE_CALLER' env var to prevent repeated
    running of unnecessary functions.
  
  *portage-2.0.47-r13 (02 Apr 2003): Fixes & Security -- Repoman+Digests
  
    02 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Added debug to
    the dep selection code in depgraph.
  
    02 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> cvstree.py: Added new
    module to handle cvs information without having to ask 'cvs status' many
    times to determine file locations.
  
    02 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Major fix ups
    to ease the introduction of enhanced digests. Intelligent cvs queries
    and use of the new cvstree module for information about files in the tree.
    Auto-digests, auto-fetches trivial cvs changes,  detects changelogs that
    exist but have not been added to cvs, and detects '*' in KEYWORDS.
  
    02 Apr 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: A typo fix or two.
    prepstrip: fixup for sed's issues with '\000' (made it \001).
  
  *portage-2.0.47-r12 (27 Mar 2003): Fixes & Security -- Repoman+Digests
  
    27 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Moved all
    initialization error messages to stderr.write() calls so that the output
    doesn't get mixed will called data. Added a warning about not being in
    the portage group. Color touchups. Digest path fixups.
  
    27 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Significant
    additions to the commit code to nicely handle the changes for enhanced
    digests. Added --commitmsg and --commitmsgfile flags to allow easier
    scripting. Added a REPOMAN environment variable to prevent portage from
    running do_updates(). Added 'grouplist' which makes groupings of subparts
    from a list of parts. Added do* functions to manage the recursion into
    the dirs of the repository.
  
    27 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> xpak.py: Change from
    lstat to stat... We're not concerned with links. Return 0 on not found.
  
    27 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portageq: added new
    functions: best_visible, mass_best_visible, all_best_visible.
  
    27 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Added '--digest'
    to force recreation of digests from the command line. Fixed portage version
    comparisions for the 'update portage please' notices.
  
    27 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Added an
    extra rm of the 'successful' file.
  
    26 Mar 2003; Alain Penders <alain@gentoo.org> portageq: added
    mass_best_version method to help GUIs resolve best versions.
  
  *portage-2.0.47-r11 (22 Mar 2003): Fixes & Security -- Winding up 2.0 series.
  
    22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: listdir()
    now is capable of recursive calls and listing only files. Used in new
    additions to digestgen() and digestcheck() for ebuilds and files/* --
    listdir(dir,recursive=0,filesonly=0). Digests now must contain all files
    from files/ and also the ebuild -- non-archives are prefixed with '/'.
    Full tbz2 fixes are now implemented... They can take a while to perform
    so status thingies are provided. update_ents() provides a batch-update
    as it would take rediculous amounts of time otherwise.
  
    22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> : fixpackages calls
    portageexit() to save the mtimedb state so it actually works. :)
  
    22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Added
    'xtermTitle' calls to emergelog to set the title during phases of merging.
    Added more emergelog calls to provide more specific information.
  
    22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> : Added two scripts to
    aid portage. 'fixdbentries' takes (old, new, path) and does an inteligent
    sed on all the db entries that should be changed. Used by global moves and
    in the tbz2 fixes. 'fixpackages' expires the updates timestamp and reloads
    portage to force do_updates() to run. Added missing Header lines.
  
    22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> xpak.py: Correct off-by-8
    bug in last commit. infosize does not contain the full size... Offset
    begins _after_ the marker -- Added xpaksize for complete offset from EOF.
  
    22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fix for
    die-on-wheel-group-missing bug. The logfiles don't cause the counter
    to be incremented and now match the merged package's COUNTER value.
    get_counter_tick_core(root) does not increment the counter. Sandbox is
    now working in all enabled cases, instead of just usersandbox. /var/db
    and binaries (assuming they are RW) are now updated to contain the proper
    info --- Added a 'fixdbentries' script to perform the updates to the data,
    and added a 'move_ent' function to class binarytree (not fakedbapi). Added
    a 'ebuild does not exist' error for the case of ebuilds in a wrongly named
    directory. Added a notice for invalid tbz2's. Removed the 'make.defaults'
    missing notice :-/. Duplicated the bintree creation so that it would be
    available for do_update(). Catch when 'updates' is missing from mtimedb.
  
    22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> output.py: Added xterm
    title bar function to set the titles... xtermTitle(mystring). Only set
    if using color and terminal is [axE]term.
  
    22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: Additions
    courtesy of Gerk and Vladamir... Checks all portage variables. Runs
    a check against invalid (but still parsable) syntax errors in names.
    Checks for invalid IUSE from use.desc and use.local.desc. Checks that
    licenses are valid. Checks for legal keywords with a default set or
    keywords.desc, if available. 'missingvar' tests moved to aux_get() calls.
  
    22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> prepstrip: Added test
    to allow cross-compile-stripping to work properly. Rewrite the script to
    be whitespace-aware and recursively process directories at level 1.
  
    22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> prepallstrip: Removed
    all code from this script and made it a call to "prepstrip $D".
  
    22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> g-cpan.pl: Add in chomps
    for the portageq calls.
  
    22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Allow
    --fetchonly of block'd packages.
  
    22 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Cleanups and
    corrections for sandbox which has been disabled and broken for a couple
    revisions now. use_{enable,with} die messages removed as they are in sub-
    shells when used and won't kill the merge --- Moved to echo >&2.
  
    21 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> xpak.py: Updates to make
    the xpak code self-sustaining. Added basic documentation to the functions
    and a description of the format in the comments at the top of the module.
  
  *portage-2.0.47-r10 (13 Mar 2003): Fixes -- Winding up 2.0 series.
  
    13 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Less strict
    check of permissions when fixing permissions for userpriv -- only requires
    02070 and group portage instead of 02770 for check.
  
    13 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> g-cpan.pl: Fix to the
    call to portageq.
    
    13 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> etc-update: Fix for
    deleted files in a CONFIG_PROTECT situation.
  
    13 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: fix for keepwork
    and keeptemp ** MUST ENSURE THAT CLEAN CLEANS BEFORE A FULL MERGE. 
  
    12 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Added more
    conditions on rsync -- Proper error detection. Rsync failures will not
    cause a cache regeneration. Portage no longer considers masked portages
    candidates for 'An update to portage'.
  
  *portage-2.0.47-r9 (10 Mar 2003): Fixes -- cvs-src, ebuild.sh, repoman
  
    10 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> make.conf*: Adjusted
    the LOGDIR message and change the default location to /var/log/portage.
  
    10 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: One more fix
    for the PORTDIR setting -- '/usr/portage' was matching '/usr/portage.cvs'.
    
    10 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> etc-update: Added the
    capability to automerge all files in the list -- with out without prompts.
    
    10 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Added messages
    on failure to create a depgraph -- Helps with bad DEPEND detection. Made
    'emerge sync' stop if it fails, and not update cache.
    
    10 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: added an
    external extra_functions.sh file with extra functions for portage --
    it is flag-o-matic and pieces of eutils presently. Removed libdir/incdir
    from einstall(). Added 'keepwork' to keep the source code after a package
    is merged. Removed the 'local' declaration of ROOT in dyn_install() --
    this fixes has_version in src_install(). Fixed the sourcing of environment
    so that variables are peristent across stages of a merge. Removed the
    SANDBOX vars from the environment file, as that upsets SANDBOX.
    
    10 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixes to
    permission problems with cvs-src and ccache (removed nested try's). Log
    counter fix -- One log per package now.
  
  *portage-2.0.47-r8 (02 Mar 2003): Fixes -- cvs-src, ebuild.sh, repoman
  
    02 Mar 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: Fixes to eclass
    errors and messages -- raise on not found. emerge --debug works for
    ebuilds with syntax errors now -- needs better implimentation though,
    debug=0 in params can't be used due to scope limits.
  
    28 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: reorg ebuild.sh again
    to ensure that aliases are expanded properly. Repoman now determines the
    proper PORTDIR to set when loading portage to scan the cvs tree. portage.py
    fixes for cvs-src permission problems with userpriv.
  
  *portage-2.0.47-r7 (27 Feb 2003): Quick fix for eerror() problem.
  
  *portage-2.0.47-r6 (26 Feb 2003): Drop deprecated warnings for new syntax.
  
    26 Feb 2003; Alain Penders <alain@gentoo.org> emerge: Drop deprecated
    warnings for new syntax.  Don't make people switch to the new syntax
    until it's agreed on by everyone.
  
  *portage-2.0.47-r5 (26 Feb 2003): Wicked Fast, BugFree v3.1, UserPriv
  
    26 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: Update docs and help
    again to drop --system and --world, and pull them from emerge's command
    line. General cleanups.
    
    26 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge/portage.py: Fixes
    to the cache directory permissions -- all dirs are properly owned by group
    portage now. Add CCACHE_SIZE setting so we set a value for ccache. If the
    dirs are set to the wrong perms, make sure they get changed recursively.
    
    26 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Rearraged the
    code blocks so that they are easier to follow -- no more code in between
    functions. All code follows function definitions now.
  
  *portage-2.0.47-r4 (25 Feb 2003): Wicked Fast, BugFree v3, UserPriv
  
    25 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: Update docs and help
    to match the deprecation of actions without '--' preceding them.
  
    25 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Message
    updates. Fix secpass for portage user. Set PORTAGE_GID for ebuild.sh to
    use regardless of GID in use (wheel/portage). Only try and delete things
    in PORTAGE_TMPDIR if we have perms to do it... see secpass note. Moved the
    cachedir creation after settings in created so that we can use spawn instead
    of system for the calls to 'chown/chmod -R'. Fix the note on make.defaults.
    Fix for the 404 catcher in the fetch code.
  
    25 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Move all actions
    into '--action' form -- Notify of deprecated usages. Moved the functions
    from the top of emerge down below the command line parser for readability.
    Kill FEATURES=noauto if we're running emerge -- it can break things. Make
    -U imply -u so people aren't confused. --debug now enables all debug
    variables in portage. Fix wheel/portage group requirements messages. Get
    the current portage version when doing rsync via the portage tree's files
    and not the loaded cache so that it is aware of changes immediately instead
    of the next run. 
  
    25 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Try to change
    to good a good path at the start of the ebuild to prevent operations from
    happening in places like home. After the ebuild's install phase, check to
    see if any unsafe perm combo's exist and die if they do. Fix permissions
    on the cachedir as we're changing them to root:portage. &> on environment
    file prevented it from actually creating the file -- changed to 2>. Change
    'true' to 'exit 0' to be a bit more explicit about what we're doing.
  
    24 Feb 2003; Alain Penders <alain@gentoo.org> repoman: Added nested/sub-shell
    die testing.
  
    23 Feb 2003; Alain Penders <alain@gentoo.org>: Added bin/portageq tool to
    provide access to portage internal information without using APIs that
    are changing.  All tools that currently access portage information by
    importing portage.py and poking around in it should switch to using this
    tool instead. Changed some tools in bin/ to use it, so those won't break
    either.
  
  *portage-2.0.47-r3 (17 Feb 2003): Wicked Fast, BugFree v2, UserPriv
  
    22 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> bin/: added dispatch-conf
    and db-fix.pl to the bins. Looking at dispatch-conf to replace etc-update
    written by Jeremy Wohl (bug 14079). db-fix.pl is a rescue tool that Blizzy
    wrote up to recreate/repair counter files in the DB -- shouldn't be needed
    anymore as portage fixes the counter at every load of the counter, but we
    will hang on to it just in case.
  
    22 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: moved the
    wheelgid references to portage_gid references. Wheel is being deprecated.
    Added notice to baselayout message that group portage controls everything
    now. Killed the BASH_ENV settings -- moved the reference to /etc/portage/
    in case it's desired in some way -- This fixes AROUND ONE HUNDRED reports
    on 2.0.47-r2. Try/catch invalid tbz2's -- should fix a couple bad tarball
    bugs. Make the prelink call spawn'd without sandbox. buildpkg/userpriv
    fix via actionmap (Jasmin Buchert; bug 16106).
  
    22 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: --upgradeonly
    added from jrray's patch; added some slot handling. --deep got a short
    flag 'D'. 'info' can be run by non-root. '--quiet' kills all but package
    names on searches. Basic slot detection added to the pretend output so
    that it doesn't always say downgrade. Ignore block list when fetching.
    Can use RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM to select a from for rsync to --exclude-from;
    (Michael Sterrett; Bug 15882). 'emerge rsync' deletes the dbcachedir
    before it begins updates. Catch  exceptions during rsync cache regen.
  
    22 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: General fixes
    to the spelling of things. 'cd $PORT_TMPDIR' corrected to the actual vars
    name. Stripping distcc from PATH if it is there before portage sets it.
    Same with ccache. If we try to compile with out unpacking, complain. Make
    sure to chown files to user portage. 
  
    22 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> cnf/*: CFLAGS notes,
    pentium4 breaks things. Added more descriptions for FEATURES. Added
    RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM description.
  
    22 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: Updates to the
    copyright headers.
    
  *portage-2.0.47-r2 (17 Feb 2003): Wicked Fast, BugFree, UserPriv
  
    18 Feb 2003; Alain Penders <alain@gentoo.org> portage-2.0.47-r2.ebuild:
    If $PORTAGE_TEST is set, skip the beeps/delay messages.  Needed to make
    the regression test scripts bearable :-)
  
    17 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixed the
    depcache code once again -- ebuild and cache were never set to the same
    mtimes. Removed last os.system() call.
  
    17 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> repoman: catdir fix.
    Added 'emerge-webrsync' from gentoolkit so users can use snapshots on
    initial installs.
  
    17 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emergehelp.py: Updated
    it to the current calls and conventions. Added comments about etc-update
    and emerge-webrsync.
  
    17 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Changed the
    search code around to use compiled re's instead of .lower() searches.
    Trivial touchups in spacing. Only write worldfile if not --pretend. Fix
    losing-packages-to-be-merged during merge bug. Allow options to change
    in a --resume call so that --buildpkg and such may be added.
    
    17 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Added a
    PREROOTPATH to allow special paths to be added prior to root and ebuild's
    required pathes. ${S} is now generated prior to sourcing an ebuild so
    that it is available in the ebuild at source-time, as opposed to in the
    phases.
  
  *portage-2.0.47-r1 (16 Feb 2003): Wicked Fast + UserPriv
  
    16 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Changed a
    few os.system calls to spawn calls. Added userpriv in features check to
    spawn. HOME is now placed in BUILD_PREFIX/homedir when userpriv is enabled.
    Valid command for doebuild() moved to the top of the function. Reorganized
    the directory creation code in doebuild(). HOME is cleaned for every merge
    if in userpriv. LOG_COUNTER fix for the per-ebuild logs -- Only one value
    is used per $PF now.
  
    16 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Adjusted options
    to remove --autoclean and make it on-by-default unless killed in FEATURES
    with 'noclean'. Removed debug for --resume. Added RSYNC_TIMEOUT as some
    dialup and other users are experiencing problems with rsync never finishing
    a connection. Added check at the end of an rsync to notify the user when
    a new version of portage is available. Added --pretend capability/fix to
    the --resume code. No resume data and a --resume is no longer a failure.
  
    16 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Updates to
    logic of ${T}/successful handling to allow proper cleaning. dyn_clean()
    will do a recursive dir removal after cleaning specific files. Recursive
    chown removed. CCACHE_DIR handled in portage.py now. Removed a few comments
    and unnecessary checks.
  
    16 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> cnf/*: added comments
    on FEATURES=noclean,noauto,userpriv,usersandbox
  
    15 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Alain changed
    the .config() call in the search class to a .settings[] -- Speedup.
  
    14 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added
    resume to mtimedbkeys.
    
    14 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: --columns
    flag to support column output in --pretend. --resume support added
    to restart portage with the package list with which it stopped -- data
    is stored in mtimedb. Added '--verbose' to 'emerge info' to display
    all variables in settings.
  
    13 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Fix to
    distcc and ccache to prevent them from calling themselves if they
    catch themselves in the path -- double path problem.
  
    13 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixes to
    the aux_get() code for metacache updates to eclass deps. Debug output
    removal.
  
    13 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: More fixes
    to the calls to aux_get() for metacache code. Rearranged the option and
    action arrays. Added --nospinner flag.
  
    13 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Reorg of flags.
    Addition of --noconfmem to prevent portage from yanking already-merged
    config files. Extra message in --version about missing gcc and sourcing
    /etc/profile to get it. Yanked the majority of the rsync cachedb update
    code -- Moved it to aux_get.
    
    13 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Typo fixes.
    aux_get() now has a metacachedb param for using metadata cache over the
    initial call to doebuild() -- Should speed up rsync users regen time.
    Added support for --noconfmem via settings["NOCONFMEM"] in treewalk().
    Added sys.exit(1) on failure to move files during merge. Comment
    realignment.
    
    11 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fix the
    depcache code by adding in a missing stat call after regeneration.
    Call portageexit() in exithandler() so that mtimedb gets written out
    on cancelled runs. Add in --quiet option. Currently only kills the
    processing messages on emerge regen.
    
    11 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Fix the
    eclass code to remove the double inherits cause by eclasses managing
    that on their own.
  
  *portage-2.0.46-r12 (07 Feb 2003): Fixups
  
    07 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Move
    logdir check/generation code so that it's created before 'clean'. Fix
    the usemask/archkeys bug and a related bug with the var enabled. Fix
    to movefile() code to ensure symlinks are handled properly.
  
    07 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Make per-
    ebuild logs use the counter to get a chronological list instead of a
    timestamp based one.
    
    07 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: If a package
    is requested to be updated but is not merged, still add it to world.
    
    07 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *: Update to help.
    Mostly comments on --verbose. Clarification on make.conf* mirrorselect.
      
  *portage-2.0.46-r11 (04 Feb 2003): Fixups
  
    04 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: distcc
    fixups along with ccache fixups from the bug 13897 effort. Added more
    varaibles to the build data output. Allow CC/CXX to be set if they are
    not set in environment.
  
    04 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Removed an
    unnecessary call to os.unlink() in movefile that resulted in it failing
    when moving files across devices. HTML 404 catcher -- if the distfile is
    a reasonable size, and it's got <title>.*(not found|404).*</title> in it
    it will be deleted and the next mirror persued.
  
  *portage-2.0.46-r10 (03 Feb 2003): Feature/Function Cleanups
  
    03 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added
    quotes to fallback checksum code to ensure it works on space-containing
    filenames. Error message added in writedict. Worldfile-depleeting bug
    fixed -- 'emerge -e world'+AUTOCLEAN would cause every package in world
    to be removed from the worldfile to be removed.
  
    03 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> make.conf: updated the
    commentary about AUTOCLEAN.
  
    03 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> etc-update: Added in
    automerge functionality for trivial changes. Comments and whitespace
    are just merged without asking when it's enabled.
  
    03 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: redundant cmd
    line flags warning. Show enabled/disabled USE flags on -vp (Masatomo
    Nakano). Missing changelog fix for --changelog. Added an rsync timeout
    of 60 seconds and a message on fail due to timeout.
  
    03 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: CC/CXX fix
    to override profile.env settings. FEATURES=distcc support to get past
    profile.env's CC settings/lockdown. If CBUILD is defined, it is appended
    to econf's output in a --build= statement. Added .unpacked marker to
    the unpack code to ensure a proper unpack phase.
  
    01 Feb 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Adjusted
    the arch.list code to be a general masking setup. /etc/make.profile/
    and /etc/portage/ have use.mask files that are concatenated. On fetch,
    if downloader reports failure, then check that filesize<digestfilesize
    and continue onto the next mirror before dying.
  
    27 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh/portage.py:
    eclass fixups for newdepend issues where newdepend operates on RDEPEND
    prior to it being set to default by ebuild.sh. Repoman fix for multi-
    arch failures by excluding /usr/portage/profiles/arch.list entries from
    consideration, excluding $ARCH.
  
  *portage-2.0.46-r9 (14 Jan 2003): portage restart fix
    15 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: fixed the
    missing tabs from the cvs diff backport.
  
  *portage-2.0.46-r8 (14 Jan 2003): touchup KV{,ERS} for public stable
  
  *portage-2.0.46-r7 (14 Jan 2003): Backport from cvs and fixes.
    portage-2.0.46* :: EXCUDES ALL PORTIONS RELATING SPECIFICALLY TO USERPRIV
  
    14 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Persistant
    KV and KVERS on depend calls. Sandbox violation of do_upgrade() caught.
  
    14 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: --buildpkg
    touchups and forward porting of some of 2.0.46-r6. Restart on -r0/proper
    versions of portage due to VERSION not matching pkgsplit output fixed.
  
    14 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: 20% speedup
    in dep generation by removing all external app calls. Moved KVERS to
    portage to make it persistent during dep calls. Other code moved into
    conditionals based on $*!=depend. chmod's swaped with umask.
  
    11 Jan 2003; Jack Morgan <jmorgan@gentoo.org> cnf/make.conf.sparc:
    updated make.conf.sparc to add CFLAGS for sparc32 and sparc64
  
    08 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> bin/g-cpan.pl:
    Added from bug 3450 -- Creates and merges perl module ebuilds on-the-fly
    from cpan and merges them.
  
    08 Jan 2003; Mark Guertin <gerk@gentoo.org> cnf/make.conf.ppc:
    updated make.conf.ppc to remove G3 options for CFLAGS and other
    small tweaks
  
  *portage-2.0.47 (06 Jan 2003): UserPriv
  
    06 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
    Forced HOME to BUILD_PREFIX regardless of user. Added in a 'rm -Rf' notice
    to readonly-fs/Full-Disk notices. Disabled the usepkg on buildpkg function
    of portage. digraph.hasallzeros() added -- Determines if tree is zero depth.
    
    06 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> cnf/*: Added in the
    PORT_LOGDIR option and description. Also added a GENTOO_MIRRORS section
    back into the make.conf* files so that users are aware that they need to
    specify ibiblio. Killed the linefeeds in the sparc conf.
  
    06 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: options and
    actions fixup. Added new short options and long options. --buildpkgonly
    now works and restricts the process to deplists of zero depth. Updated
    the help for portage, and created a seperate shorthelp function with
    the terse, options-only, versions of the regular help. Fixed the env_update
    call after --fetchonly runs.
  
    06 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh:
    touchups to the user priv and logging code to kill the invalid user
    messages when portage:portage doesn't exist on the system.
  
  *portage-2.0.47_pre4 (03 Jan 2003): UserPriv Works + Per-Ebuild logging
  
    04 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
    tokenize() fixups to remedy the || reduce problems. 
  
    04 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> prepall:
    Fixup for '//' problem.
  
    03 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh:
    Support for per-ebuild logging via PORT_LOGDIR variable. ebuild.sh
    now can do usermode compiles _and_ maintain the enviroment with a
    few minor restrictions like changing portage variables.
  
  *portage-2.0.47_pre3 (02 Jan 2003): Forward port of fixes & New fixes
  
    02 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
    tbz2 handling improved -- checks current, pkgdir/All/x, pkgdir/x.
    -r0 removal on current ver to stop people from complaining about it.
    More info added to 'emerge info' output.
  
    02 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
    Spaces in filenames fix for prelink-capable systems. Exception caused
    by invalid or unsatisfiable '||' dependancies caught and warned about.
    auxdbkey order fix. dbcachedir now ensures a '/' before the cache dir.
  
    02 Jan 2003; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> prep*:
    Fixes from Azarah to make the included files more proper.
  
    26 Dec 2002; Phil Bordelon <sunflare@gentoo.org> man/emerge.1:
    Added documentation of the --deep option.
  
  *portage-2.0.46-r5 (30 Dec 2002): Touchups and sparc confs
  
    30 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *:
    fix for prelink unmerge problems. small touches to outputs.
    sparc configs added. Azarah's fixups for the prep* scripts.
    Changes to 'emerge info' output. tbz2 prefixes PKGDIR/All if the
    tbz2 doesn't exist in the current dir.
  
  *portage-2.0.46-r3 (24 Dec 2002): Backport of fixes in 2.0.47_pre2
  
  *portage-2.0.47_pre2 (24 Dec 2002): Feature: userpriv compiles
  
    Tokenizer fixup courtasy of Evgeny Roubinchtein. unalias -a in ebuild.sh.
    Moved the help() to emergehelp.py. prepallman fixup for missed symlinks.
    More info provided for portage-user-missing message. FEATURES=sandboxuser
    not provides sandbox in compile phase along with userpriv. mtimedb
    exception should actually be caught now.
    
  *portage-2.0.47_pre1 (21 Dec 2002): Feature: userpriv compiles
  
    21 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *:
    ebuild.sh: portage user setup. dyn_setup is always run before calls to
    unpack,compile,install. emerge: infodirs cleanup, traceback on invalid
    dir fix. Proper regen on info change. portage.py: uid/gid discovery and
    check code. PRELINK_PATH and PRELINK_PATH_MASK added and renamed. Made
    HOME set to BUILD_PREFIX when HOME is unset. Patched in UserPriv compile
    code and checks and complaints to ensure smooth integration. Reorganized
    chown calls to ensure things get set right for userpriv and not. Sandbox:
    UID check to prevent non-root errors patched in.
  
  *portage-2.0.46-r2 (18 Dec 2002): Feature Stable Release Prelink + Bug Fixes
  
    18 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge:
    Traceback fix for blocking packages in the restart check in emerge. Added
    missing import for commands in portage.py.
  
  *portage-2.0.46 (18 Dec 2002): Feature Stable Release Prelink + Bug Fixes
  
    18 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
    PRELINK_MASK adds ignore paths for prelink.conf. Error message
    adjustments for appearance/readability. auxdbkey changes.
  
    18 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
    --changelog displays changelogs of packages on update. gcc version
    fix for --version. Missing indent in masked output corrected. Some
    color additions. Prelink code removed -- Users can do it instead.
  
    18 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh:
    use_{enable,with}() work now. Rearranged auxdbkeys again.
    
    17 Dec 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> bin/ebuild.sh:
    Regenerate /lib/cpp and /usr/bin/cc in pkg_setup if they are not
    files to ease the broken pkg_postrm() some gcc have.
  
  *portage-2.0.46_pre2 (15 Dec 2002): Feature Prerelease: prelink
  
    15 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge/portage.py:
    Fixups. PRELINK_MASK code. 'prelink -af' in post_emerge().
  
    15 Dec 2002; Mark Guertin <gerk@gentoo.org> cnf.make.conf.ppc:
    updated incorrect CFLAG option and appended -mabi=altivec info
  
  *portage-2.0.46_pre1 (15 Dec 2002): Feature Prerelease: prelink
  
    15 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Counter
    fixups. Prelink code.
  
    15 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> bin/f*: Made them
    loop over multiple files instead of just doing one.
  
    13 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge/portage.py:
    Added disabled prelink code. Needs a little more work. Gave portage the
    ability to restart on upgrades to the portage version. Ebuilds for prior
    versions will intentionally die on upgrade. USE=build disables it so
    bootstrap isn't affected.
  
  *portage-2.0.45-r5 (13 Dec 2002): Feature addition: PDEPEND+fixes
  
    13 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge/portage.py:
    Added restart on portage upgrade code and adjusted ebuild to accomplish
    this until version matches -r5.
  
  *portage-2.0.45-r4 (11 Dec 2002): Feature addition: PDEPEND
  
    11 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh/portage.py:
    Added [CDEPEND, PDEPEND, REBUILD] to auxdbkeys and updated ebuild.sh.
    Prevented autoclean on fetchonly.
    
    11 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
    Added support for PDEPEND. Rewrote some dep handling variables for
    readability and ease of use.
  
  *portage-2.0.45-r3 (09 Dec 2002): Touchups.
  
    09 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Fixed
    use_enable() and use_with() so that they actually work -- also don't
    have to specify 2nd parameter, 1st is assumed. 
    
    09 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Added previous
    version/downgrade messages to --pretend. Extra message to notify of dep
    calculation failure as bad deps can exit portage without error.
  
    09 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Attempt
    at fixing the sandbox-crashes-missing-HOME bug. Added a try/catch around
    the virts/'del x' code to prevent tracebacks on boxes without a virtuals
    file.
  
    06 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: Fixed 'xfrom'
    variable-used-before-assignment message on masked ebuilds.
  
    06 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Disabled
    writes to DBs when sandbox is enabled.
  
    03 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixed a
    nice bug where python was writing 'L' at the end of long() types for
    mtimes.
  
  *portage-2.0.45 (02 Dec 2002): More bug fixes for stable.
  
    02 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py, output.py:
    Added several color options and functions to output.py. 'DO NOT EDIT'
    notices added to .env generated profile settings files. Touchups and
    nofetch() call for restricted fetches. Moved some file IO code for
    SLOTs into a try/catch. { mtimedb fixups. Eclass aux_get() error fix.
    aux_get() error fix via try/catch with magically-missing ebuild when
    doing stat on it. Enabled full eclass()/inherit code. Added code to
    flushmtimedb() entries by key name. } <-- aux_get() fixups. Made
    starttime into a long... time.time() is apparently overflowing int().
    
    02 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> bin/*:
    prep*: Fixed missed man pages and corrected loops to be fairly complete
    in the included files. quickpkg: Loop to do each in $@ (Peter Sharp).
  
    02 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
    Yank '++' from searches and make it '\+\+' so that it works. Reformated
    'all ebuilds are masked' message to be a little more obvious. env_update()
    AFTER autoclean... not in autoclean -- Fixes ldconfig issues. Typo fixes.
  
    02 Dec 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh:
    Added has(), general use()-like function -- 'has this_thing $VAR' returns
    shell true or false. Added has_version(), portage call to determine if
    a specified DEPEND-atom is installed -- 'has_version ">=mozilla-1.2"'
    returns shell true or false. Added best_version(), portage call to
    get the best/most-recently-merged version of a DEPEND-atom statement --
    'best_version ">=mozilla-1.0"' prints a string. pkg_nofetch() displays
    SRC_URIs by default on RESTRICT -- Can be redefined to display custom
    messages. die() on unpack() failure added. Courtasy of SpanKY: Added
    use_with() and use_enable() for --with-thing and --enable-thing.
    'use_with gd libgd' would print --with-libgd if gd was in USE and
    --without-libgd if not.
  
    19 Nov 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> cnf/etc-update.conf:
    Add 'menu' config item and note about it needing dev-utils/dialog, as
    a lot of users do not know about this nifty feature.
  
    14 Nov 2002; Phil Bordelon <sunflare@gentoo.org> man/emerge.1:
    Cleaned up the more recent edits to the man page to more closely
    match the previous format, fix various typos, and so on.  Expanded
    the REPORTING BUGS section, and made the PACKAGE MASKING part of the
    NOTES a stand-alone section.
  
  *portage-2.0.44 (11 Nov 2002): bug fixes and 1.2 rescue/install setup
  
    11 Nov 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> *:
    bin/*: fixes for spaces-in-filename issues, lots of quotes added. conf/*:
    touched up comments and warning. Added RSYNC_RETRIES.  ebuild.sh: exit now
    reports the failing ebuild's $CATEGORY/$PF. Added EXTRA_ECONF to econf().
    emake: added EXTRA_EMAKE. emerge: RSYNC_RETRIES curtasy of Christopher
    Sharp. Random comment fixes. portage.py: Random touchups. KV extraction
    fixup for new ROOTs. ARCH missing in profile fix. Fix for packages/All
    missing dir traceback. INFOPATH/INFODIR fix. Added INFOPATH to specials.
    portage.py: Touchups to the mtimedb-touching code. Fixes for the broken
    os.path.normpath() leading '//' bug. Added a modified chuck of Phoen][x's
    dist size patch.
  
    09 Nov 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
    Fixups for KV.
  
    08 Nov 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
    Fix for missing-glibc-bug in --version.
  
    08 Nov 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
    Fix for cfgdictfile traceback when ROOT != '/'. Fix for missing kernel
    headers -- checks usr/src/linux, then /usr/include, then if merging
    from sys-kernel ignore error.
  
    07 Nov 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
    Fix (part 2) for the USE="-*" arch-missing problem.
  
    03 Nov 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
    eclass() function uses a caching and cPickle storing method to determine
    currency of eclass-derived depcache entries. All previous methods are
    already removed. eclass_save() is called via store() now. Stripped some
    cruft from aux_get(). Error message touchups.
  
    03 Nov 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
    A couple message touchups.
  
    29 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
    Moved the autoclean section under the --pretend check so it doesn't flip
    out when running '-f'. Preliminary support for binary-only methods.
    --usepkgonly (implies --usepkg) to force errors is binaries don't exist.
  
    27 Oct 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> new*: changed "&&" to "||"
    to provide even better protection against mis-use of these commands.
  
  *portage-2.0.43 (27 Oct 2002): Bug fix release
  
    27 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
    AUTOCLEAN="yes" on by default. Added in a clean phase after the merge
    phase so clashing library versions do not remain installed when ldconfig
    is run. This should close up the symlinks-being-removed bugs.
    
    27 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> cnf/*:
    Miscelaneous typo fixes. Added PORTDIR_OVERLAY description in make.conf.
  
    26 Oct 2002; J Robert Ray <jrray@gentoo.org> portage.py:
    Don't act like the download failed if after successfully downloading
    a file its size doesn't match the file size in the digest.  Treat
    this as a mismatched digest condition instead.
  
    26 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
    Reversed the defaults on env_update() so it does a full ldconfig instead
    of a non-symlink ldconfig. Fixed the typo in the 'invalid conf' notices.
  
  *portage-2.0.42 (24 Oct 2002): Bug fix release
  
    24 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> make.defaults.5:
    Removed this file. It is horribly out of date and completely
    wrong to boot. Users shouldn't be modifying the 3 lines in this file
    anyway. They are obvious if you understand conf and defaults.
  
    24 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
    Added missing return statements to select_dep() that caused unmet packages
    to be ignored. Touchups to 'emerge info' and 'emerge --version' output.
    Added --delete to --delete-after so that it actually deletes in rsync.
  
    24 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
    Warning touchups. Replaced constants (9) to index("INHERITED").
  
    23 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> bin/new*:
    Fix for "running as a root user" bug... code does 'rm -rf /' if
    variables aren't defined in environment... That's a bad thing.
  
    23 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
    Possible fix for the aux_get() issues and IUSE.
  
    22 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
    noauto got lost in some weird conflicts of .38, added it back.
  
    22 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
    Primitive logging via emergelog(). countdown(N,str) function does N second
    countdowns of the action 'str'. Error messages on dependency traceback
    via try/except on select_dep(). Removed the 'unavailable' warning. Message
    updates. Added logging of basic actions to /var/log/emerge.log. Added
    package/to-go counter. 'emerge info' displays a number of useful variables
    that is good for bug reports.
  
    22 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> prepallstrip:
    Bug 9508, fix for MSB architectures strip. Previous check assumed only
    LSB objects could/should be stripped. (*LSB -> *SB) [Joky@#gentoo-sparc]
  
  *portage-2.0.41 (20 Oct 2002): Bug fix release
  
    20 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
    stickies=[] lists the variables that will be kept/used as sticky vars,
    not yet implimented. Fixed several relative symlink bugs by adding
    abssymlink() to portage to determine real/absolute targets. env_update()
    modified to fix bug 9308 symlinks bug. Bug 8348, request for error messages
    instead of tracebacks/dies on parse errors, now caught on a per file basis
    for system config files, includes descriptive messages. Fix for missing
    profile traceback in new prepend'd-arch code. Typo fixes in symlink code.
    DISABLED 'KEYWORD="" == available' code, DEFAULT IS MASKED NOW. Major
    update to masking code, CONFIG_PROTECT can be layered with _MASKs, and
    update_protect() now sets the self.protect* variables. Condensed and
    reordered the unmerge code, now checks existance, cfgprotect, then mtimes.
  
    20 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
    Bug 8767: Added 'buildpkg' to FEATURES to specify always-buildpkg.
    Updated the --version output to display profile and gcc version.
    Bug 8083: Eliminate spinner when terminal is not a tty. Bug 7688:
    fixed search vs. searchdesc differences by adding 'cat/pack' split.
    Bug 9308: Symlinks were being killed by ldconfig, fixed by changing
    how/when ldconfig was allowed to set symlinks.  rsync command touchups,
    --delete-after so that a failed rsync won't leave a user
    without/with-few packages in portage.  More warnings to depclean.
  
    20 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh:
    Added die to gzip in unpack()
  
    20 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> make.conf*:
    Added in useful variables and descriptions+warnings of their uses.
  
    20 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> make.globals*:
    Added in large "do not edit" message.
  
    16 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
    Fixed an mtimes issue. --update on a package might yank non-cfgprot
    files during the clean-phase because they didn't have mtimes updated.
  
    15 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
    Added 'IUSE' to the auxdbkey list. Fixed random aux_get() errors
    caused by random empty files in the dep cache.
  
    15 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh
    Actually committed the --host portion of econf.
  
    15 Oct 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> portage.py, missingos.c:
    Remove testsandbox.sh, and comment code in portage.py that still
    used it to no real use.  Add another '\' to the 'missingos_mknod__doc__'
    string in src/python-missingos/missingos.c to fix failure with gcc-3.3.
  
  *portage-2.0.40 (13 Sep 2002): Bug fix release
  
    15 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge:
    emerge depclean -- Removes all packages that are not explicitly or
    dependency merged.
  
    15 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh:
    depend now prints IUSE. Doesn't do anything with it yet.
    unpack() -- unzip silently overwrites files ().
    econf() -- now specifies '--host=${CHOST}'
  
    15 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> make.globals:
    Touch ups + warning.
  
    15 Oct 2002; Brandon Low <lostlogic@gentoo.org> etc-update:
    Make etc-update find all the same CONFIG_PROTECT files as portage
    by importing it's settings from portage.
  
  *portage-2.0.39 (13 Sep 2002): Bug fix release
  
    13 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
    Bug 5926 -- If the fetchonly AND pretend flags are specified, then
    portage should give a list of all the SRC_URIs so that they can be
    downloaded or sent into another app. Made sandbox display name in
    'ps' as '[$PF] sandbox'.
  
    13 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
    Bug 5926 -- See portage.py for today. (emerge -pf)
    Typo fixes.
  
    13 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh:
    Added -q to unzip to make it quiet like the others.
    Bug 6033 -- Fix for infinate loop in eclasses in portage overlay.
  
    12 Oct 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fix for
    doebuild() so that our rsync mirror will contain full digests and not just
    partial digests for x86.
  
    12 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
    Added --progress to rsync. This puts the file progress meters
    back on. Users have requested this, and it's not detrimental.
    Just creates a lot of output, as the man page says: "It gives
    bored users something to look at."
  
    12 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
    Bug 6361 -- Added checking on directories to ensure that we can
    write to them before we try and traceback. Also added pieces to
    functions so that return conditions are propagated back to emerge
    so that it actually dies on errors. Message on condition details
    restart process.
  
    11 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> make*globals:
    Removed the tomcat configs from CONFIG_PROTECT
  
    11 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> doman:
    Bug 8208 -- Added flags and auto-location support for 'x' manpages.
    Added not-an-man-page message.
  
    11 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> dohtml:
    Bug 8208 -- Added 'js' to the include list, and added '-A' as an
    append flag. '-a' was a filter-down-to.
  
    11 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
    Bug 8964 -- Fix for read-only traceback in digestgen().
    Bug 8949 -- Fix for read-only traceback in doebuild()
    Bug 8284 -- Prepend ARCH _after_ use order processing. Prevents -*
    from killing the ARCH flag. Bug 7596 -- Set an mtime of 0 into
    CONTENTS if the file already exists on the FS. Allows the entry
    to be in the CONTENTS file. Condensed the protect/protect-mask
    code into one function in class dblink. Revised code to allow
    multi-level protects and masks.
  
    10 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge:
    Bug 8552 -- typo fixes
  
    10 Oct 2002; Mark Guertin <gerk@gentoo.org> cnf/make.conf.ppc :
    Fixed type in reccomended CFLAGS for generic ppc (was 02, corrected 
    to O2)
  
    09 Oct 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py:
    Fixed a bug where files less than 2 characters in /etc/env.d
    weren't checked correctly, and tracebacked env_update()
  
    07 Oct 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh:
    Also set $TMP, as MDK among distros sets this, and it causes
    breakage during bootstrap.  This should close bug #8101.
  
    07 Oct 2002; Mark Guertin <gerk@gentoo.org> man/ebuild.5 :
    Updated the man page to include missing functions in portage
  
    05 Oct 2002; Mark Guertin <gerk@gentoo.org> cnf/make.conf cnf/make.conf.ppc:
    Fixed typo (missing "/") in make.conf and make.conf.ppc, bug #7944
  
    28 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: remove
    deprecated "ld.so" from newdepend.
  
  *portage-2.0.38 (25 Sep 2002): Bug fix release 
  
    25 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: now "emerge world"
    and "emerge system" don't replace packages. This closes bug #8282.
    
    21 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage-2.0.38.ebuild:
    Added additional perm check for /var/cache/edb/dep dirs and fixed perm
    settings in the ebuild's pkg_postinst(); this should close bug #7719.
    
    21 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added
    carpaski's patch to add PF to the sandbox's argv[0], closing bug #8141.
  
    19 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: tweaked emerge so
    that "--pretend" displays don't show "N" all the time.
  
    19 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: tweaked help to
    not list deprecated options.
  
    25 Sep 2002; Maik Schreiber <blizzy@gentoo.org> cnf/make.globals,
    cnf/make.globals.ppc: Added /opt/jakarta/tomcat/conf to CONFIG_PROTECT. Note
    by drobbins: this will be removed soon when this gets moved to an /etc/env.d
    file in the tomcat package.
  
  *portage-2.0.37 (19 Sep 2002): Gentoo Linux 1.4_rc1 version 
  
    10 Sep 2002; Mark Guertin <gerk@gentoo.org> cnf/make.conf.ppc : Backed down
    CFLAGS from -O3 to -O2 on ppc as -O3 has proven to be unreliable on all
    PowerPC-based machines
  
    09 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: new parameterized
    create() engine, security pass fixes ("emerge" as non-root doesn't print
    "root access required" but shows help instead), emerge --pretend output fixes
    ("to /" lines are dropped and only displayed if installation root != "/".)
    New (and currently unofficial and undocumented) "--deep" and "--selective"
    options that correspond to their respective create() parameters. Using
    "--deep" will enable "deep emerging" -- updating all deps even if the parent
    doesn't need updating. The new parametrized create() is also much cleaner
    than the previous incarnation.
    
    09 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: os.chdir() ->
    chdir() fix, enhanced fetch() digest corruption handling.
  
    06 Sep 2002; Mark Guertin <gerk@gentoo.org> cnf/make.globals.ppc :
    Updated make.globals.ppc to reflect new CFLAGS for 1.4 release
  
  *portage-2.0.36 (04 Sep 2002): Gentoo Linux 1.4_rc1 version 
  
    04 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: "--onlydeps" was
    mostly broken since the most recent emerge code restructure. Now fixed,
    closing bug #7442.
    
    04 Sep 2002: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> etc-update.conf: added
    missing etc-update config file.
    
    04 Sep 2002: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: removed error
    detection based on return value for pkg_preinst() and friends when called
    from merge() and unmerge(), since the value can be unreliable due to the &&
    shell construct, depmod -a returning a non-zero value, etc. Also fixed
    env_update() to treat CONFIG_PROTECT and CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK correctly.
  
  *portage-2.0.35 (03 Sep 2002) 
  
    03 Sep 2002: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> etc-update,
    man/etc-update.1: new program for updating config files.
    
    03 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: upgraded
    inherit() to support $PORTDIR_OVERLAY, closing bug #6033.
    
    03 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: calls to "cvs" now
    use "-z3" compression option, closing bug #5982.
    
    03 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: symlinks to
    .tbz2's in the $PKGDIR/All directory (from $PKGDIR/$CATEGORY) are now
    relative, closing bug #6881.
  
    03 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: einstall now
    sees "GNUmakefile", closing bug #4895.
    
    03 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: typo fixes,
    closing bug #7263.
  
    03 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: /var/tmp
    creation now works even if /tmp already exists, closing bug #7376.
    
    02 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: fixed a logic error
    that resulted in non-root emerge failure. This closes bug #7389.
  
  *portage-2.0.34 (01 Sep 2002) 
  
    01 Sep 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py, ebuild.sh:
    Azarah's ebuildsh() removed, various other little fixes like pkg_preinst and
    friends not dying on non-zero return codes.
    
    01 Sep 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: add a custom
    version of the esyslog() function to fix the "Red Star" bug if no logger is
    running.
  
  *portage-2.0.33_p1 (30 Aug 2002): urgent fix
  
    31 Aug 2002; Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: comment out the if
    clause that only executed inherit() conditional on $PORTAGE_RESTORE_ENV. It
    didn't work and broke portage 2.0.33 as far as inheriting ebuilds goes.
  
  *portage-2.0.33 (30 Aug 2002) 
  
    30 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> : some additional clean-ups
    for the make.conf(.ppc) files.
    
    30 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: emerge search would
    die when aux_get() raised a KeyError; we now catch and handle this exception.
    This closes bug #7280.
    
    29 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fixed typo in
    move_ent() code that messed up moving packages into previously non-existant
    category directories in /var/db/pkg.
    
    30 Aug 2002; Mark Guertin <gerk@gentoo.org> cnf/make.conf.ppc : Updated
    cnf/make.conf.ppc with new CFLAGS for 1.4 release
  
  *portage-2.0.32 (29 Aug 2002)  
    
    29 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: favorites weren't
    working since 2.0.30; they're working again now. This closes bug #7225.
  
    29 Aug 2002; Phil Bordelon <sunflare@gentoo.org> emerge.1: Added a small
    blurb regarding what to do when emerge --update [world|system] fails because
    of new features such as || and ?.  Hopefully this will assuage the fairly
    common questions regarding this.
  
  *portage-2.0.31 (29 Aug 2002)
  
    28 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fixed a config
    file protection logic bug detected and identified by Azarah. It basically
    broke most config file updates and has been broken for around six months.
    Very surprised no one had encountered this issue before.
    
    28 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: improved error
    messages when an unsatisfiable dependency is encountered. Now lets you know
    if there are masked packages that would satisfy the dep.
    
    28 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: emerging .tbz2
    packages and .ebuilds by name now works; this was broken in 2.0.30.
  
  *portage-2.0.30 (28 Aug 2002)
  
    28 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: rewrote
    gettimeval() as cpv_counter() and updated it to handle corrupt COUNTER files,
    closing bug #6763.
    
    28 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: "emerge search" now
    displays information for masked packages if possible, closing bug #6823.
    
    28 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: fixed an old gbevin
    bug where "emerge search" wouldn't show packages whose version string was
    only one character long, ie. "foo-3". This closes bug #6800.
    
    28 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: added a missing
    call to flatten() in dep_check(), allowing recursive sublists in dependencies
    and SRC_URI variables to work; this closes bugs #7104, #7116, #7122.
    
    28 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> doman: fixed some typos,
    closing bug #7152.
    
    28 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: major
    work to emerge: reworked the internal code organization to make depgraph code
    easier to understand; unified two code paths so that ebuild/.tbz2 choices
    when "--usepkg" should now be eternally consistent; tweaked portage.py so
    that dep_expand()'s dbapi argument is optional. In the process of all this,
    isolated and fixed bug #4508.
    
    27 Aug 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> portage.py: if the dep
    cache is stale, it is possible that aux_get() will call doebuild(depend) to
    regenerate it again.  This call will cause $T to be set to "", which will
    break anything that needs $T to be set to a writable location inside the
    sandbox, so we need to set $T to a valid value again.
  
    27 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: improved error
    handling/detection of bad pkgsplit() and catpkgsplit() calls; should close
    bug #6803, #6853.
    
    26 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: fix so that "emerge
    prune rsync" doesn't complain that you are trying to rsync and prune at the
    same time. This closes bug #6785.
    
    26 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> doman fixes; should work
    for pre-gzipped man-pages and man-pages with multiple "."s in their name.
    Closes bugs #6770, #6917
    
    25 Aug 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> emerge: fixed an
    indentation problem of the 'else:' at line 1304. 
  
    20 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: removed stray
    "DEBUG:" output, closing bug #6732.
  
  *portage-2.0.29 (18 Aug 2002)
  
    18 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge, portage.py,
    ebuild.sh: making some effort to make output cleaner and less cluttered,
    particularly with error handling.
    
    18 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: updated so that
    "emerge --inject foo-1.0" fails instead of injecting "null/foo-1.0"; fixed
    error in help; "emerge --inject" and "emerge" with no specified files or
    package classes prints out a small warning and exits. Closes bug #6353.
    
    18 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: movefile()
    didn't like bind mounts due to a peculiar quality -- according to their
    ST_DEV stat() information, they are on the same filesystem, so rename()
    should work, but it doesn't. We now fall back to copy if rename() doesn't
    work. Closes bug #6468.
    
    18 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: made significant
    enhancements and fixes to ebuild.sh's error-handling code. Errors in
    src_unpack(), src_compile(), src_install() and others should now be correctly
    detected. Also downgraded our use() function since we are not implementing
    extended USE functionality. Closes bug #6393.
    
    18 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: portdb's
    cp_all() now skips "CVS" directories, closing bug #6662. 
   
    18 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: aux_get():
    exception handler to print informative message when encountering wacky cache
    entries that we just can't fix (for some reason.)
   
    17 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: removed
    deprecated "ld.so" dependency from Dan Armak's newdepend() function.
    
    17 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: doebuild()
    running in "depend" mode will set $T to "" to prevent a parent's $T from
    being inherited; this is important when we run custom portage code from
    inside an ebuild (such as pkg_postinst)... it allows dep caching to not
    break. Closes bug #6484.
  
  *portage-2.0.28 (17 Aug 2002)
  
    16 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: return errors when
    two actions like "world" and "system" are specified on the command-line, or
    when "system" or "world" are combined with package names. Closes bug #6492.
    
    16 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: bad string was
    causing pkg_prerm() and pkg_postrm() to not be called; now fixed.  This
    closes bug #6493.
    
    16 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: now calls
    env-update() after an unmerge() run (to fix library paths, links, etc.)
    Closes bug #6511.
    
    16 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> doman: now handles already-
    gzipped man pages correctly, closing bug #6544.
    
    16 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: fixed a bug where a
    dep specified on the command-line with --usepkg would use an old package if
    it happened to match the dep. Now, it will use the ebuild instead, just like
    how deps of deps are treated.
  
  *portage-2.0.27 (06 Aug 2002)
  
    07 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: removed some
    beta extended USE functionality to speed up regenerate(); as we are likely
    not going to need extended USE for a good while.
    
    07 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: ebuild.sh now
    supports "config" (pkg_config) again.
  
    06 Aug 2002; Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: change debug-print()
    to exit if $T is not defined, i.e. if emerge is running in dependency
    detection mode and isn't actually emerging everything. This fixes bug #4932
    (the "eclass-debug.log is created in /" problem).
  
    06 Aug 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Fixed a
    case-check problem that prevented tar.Z from being un-tar'd. This closes bug
    #6126.
  
    06 Aug 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> portage.py, ebuild.sh:
    Remove "setup" from 'sandboxactive' in portage.py, as we are not running
    pkg_setup() in a sandbox anymore.  Move the restoring of the old env code
    to be the first thing in ebuild.sh, just to ensure we dont mess anything
    up when greping/awking during saving it.
  
  *portage-2.0.26 (06 Aug 2002)
  
    06 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: on unmerge,
    entries are now removed from the world file if 1) the dependency refers to
    the cat/pkg being unmerged, and 2) the dependency matches the current version
    being unmerged, and 3) unmerging this package will leave no other packages on
    this system that will match this world entry.  This closes bug #3409.
    
    06 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: new global
    update support.  You can now add an entry to a file in
    /usr/portage/profiles/updates/, something like "move x11-base/xfree
    x11-base/xfree86".  Portage will then update the /var/db/pkg db on user's
    boxes so that any xfree packages are renamed to xfree86; it will also update
    the world and virtuals files appropriately.  We are naming the update files
    "3Q-2002", etc.  -- for third quarter in 2002.  This way, we don't bog
    Portage down by having it run through all our directives.  It will only look
    at update files whose mtimes have changed.  Closes bug #4753, #5463, 
    
    06 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: tweaked Azarah's
    environment-saving patch to not be enabled when $T is not defined -- this
    closes bug #6070 and should speed up dep calculations too.  Also tweaked
    ebuild.sh so that pkg_setup() is run *outside* of the sandbox.  This is
    important because piping stuff around tends to require temp files to be
    created; pkg_setup() being in the sandbox prevents this from happening.
    
    06 Aug 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh : Unset
    esave_ebuild_env in esave_ebuild_env(), otherwise the sourced copy messes
    saving of the environment.
    
    05 Aug 2002; Phil Bordelon <sunflare@gentoo.org> emerge.1: Updated the man
    page to match the current version of 2.0.25.
    
    05 Aug 2002; Phil Bordelon <sunflare@gentoo.org> emerge.1: Updated the man
    page to match the current version of 2.0.25.
  
  *portage-2.0.25 (05 Aug 2002)
  
    05 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> src/sandbox/Makefile:
    removed -march=i386 added in Azarah's patch; breaks things for PPC, Sparc.
    
    05 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: logic error fix for
    description searching, closing bug #6031.
  
  *portage-2.0.24 (04 Aug 2002)
  
    04 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> output.py, emerge: rewrote
    our output.py module (it was weird) and tweaked emerge so that colorization
    will be disabled if NOCOLOR is set to "yes" or "true" *or* if sys.stdout isn't
    a tty.  This means that if you pipe things to "less", colorization will get
    automatically disabled.  Yay!  This closes bug #5714, 
    
    04 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: default
    src_compile now properly uses "die" instead of "return 1."  This closes bug
    #2981.
    
    04 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: "=foo/bar-1.0*"
    now matches "foo/bar-1.0_{alpha|beta|pre|rc}{int}" but not
    "foo/bar-1.1_{alpha_beta_pre_rc}{int}".  This closes bug #5874; gcc-3.2_pre
    is now considered a "3.2" rather than a very late "3.1" when doing "*"
    matching.
    
    04 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Applied
    carpaski's patch to allow "unpack" to also handle regular .gz or .bz2 files;
    in which case the unpacked files are placed directly in ${WORKDIR}.  Closing
    bug #5867.
  
    04 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: tweaked
    exithandler() to only do its sandbox clean-up if we happen to be the root
    user.  Closes bug #5859.
  
    04 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: search now lists
    masked packages correctly.  Closes bug #5854 (pending QA verification.)
    
    04 Aug 2002; Phil Bordelon <sunflare@lsu.edu> emerge.1: The emerge man page
    now reflects the fact that emerge sync|rsync always does a --clean now.  Also
    bumped the release number to 2.0.23.
  
    03 Aug 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge.sh,
    sandbox.c libsandbox.c: Updated sandbox.c and libsandbox.c to use an internal
    env variable, $SANDBOX_ACTIVE to determine if sandbox should really be active
    or not.  With it only checking $SANDBOX_ON, some instances NOT running in a
    sandbox, but that set SANDBOX_ON while an actual sandbox was running, caused
    the sandbox to activate for this process.  Added in support for a more phased
    calls to ebuild.sh again.  This is this time done with support to save the
    current environment of ebuild.sh to the next call that should handle problems
    with pkg_setup() setting env variables.  Closes bugs #5853, #5817, #5950.
  
  *portage-2.0.23 (01 Aug 2002)
  
    01 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py:
    ${ROOT}var/cache/edb and friends will get created if they don't exist,
    closing bug #5813.
    
    01 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: rewrote the emerge
    search code, making it fully API-compliant and much more streamlined and
    compact.  This rewrite should fix the problem where emerge search doesn't
    support Portage overlays (bug #5783.)
    
    31 Jul 2002; Phil Bordelon <sunflare@gentoo.org> emerge.1: Documented the
    fact that emerge clean does not remove unslotted ebuilds.  Bumped the man
    page revision number to 2.0.22.
  
  *portage-2.0.22 (29 Jul 2002)
  
    29 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fetch() didn't
    handle resuming downloads properly when the first attempt aborted
    prematurely.  The fall back to the alternate location would not resume the
    download.  This should now be fixed.  Closes bug #5655.
    
    29 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, ebuild.sh: I
    had some code in spawn() from one of Azarah's patches that I forgot to
    remove; it caused the sandbox to be disabled all the time.  I removed this
    code, and then I tweaked ebuild.sh so that the sandbox runs in a "deny by
    default" configuration.  Before, you could add lines to the main ebuild
    (outside of a function) and it would bypass the sandbox; no more.  Closes
    bugs #5740, #5744.
    
    29 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: --help and
    --version now work for non-root users as they should.  --clean has been
    deprecated.  This closes bug #5658.
  
  *portage-2.0.21 (28 Jul 2002)
  
    28 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: Added
    beta "Portage tree overlay" support.  By setting PORTDIR_OVERLAY to point to
    a local directory tree, you can cause Portage to look for ebuilds in
    PORTDIR_OVERLAY first before consulting the regular PORTDIR.  Using this
    feature, it's possible to have your PORTDIR set up to rsync but still be able
    to have locally-created ebuilds in your PORTDIR_OVERLAY tree.  For example,
    you would place your ebuild in PORTDIR_OVERLAY/sys-apps/foo/.
    
    27 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: another
    dep_opconvert() USE-handling bug-fix.  Working OK for Azarah now.
    
    27 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: small logic
    error fix in dep_opconvert() to fix up USE handling.
  
    27 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: security modes now
    work correctly; root access now required for merging.  The new security pass
    code was missing a check that is now present.
  
  *portage-2.0.20 (27 Jul 2002)
  
    27 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge,
    repoman: Rewrote a good deal of our dependency-checking code, including all
    of dep_opconvert().  Results?  repoman will now auto-enable all USE variables
    (even ! use variables will get enabled) resulting in thorough checks of all
    specified dependencies.  DEPEND="foo? bar : oni" and DEPEND="foo? ( bar oni )
    : ( meep barf )" now works correctly.  DEPEND="|| ( foo bar oni )" now works
    correctly and will try to satisfy "foo" (the first package) if none are
    installed.  DEPEND="!foo? ( bar )" now works correctly; it was not working
    before.  This should generally mean that our dependency system is now working
    as expected.
    
    27 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: changed
    counter_tick() method so that bulk of code is in the counter_tick_code()
    helper function; then created a new method for fakedbapi that calls
    counter_tick().  This fixes "--emptytree" issues with emerge, since emerge
    still expects counter_tick() to exist as a method.
  
    27 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: removed
    a DEBUG: print and a stray "raise IndexError" that I used for debugging.
  
  *portage-2.0.19 (26 Jul 2002)
  
    26 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Portage is now
    eclass-friendly when it comes to regenerating cache entries.  This closes bug
    #4843.
    
    26 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: Closed
    bug #5524.  Packages "emerge inject"ed will no longer get auto-cleaned
    indiscriminantly.  Injected packages now have an official COUNTER so that
    emerge clean doesn't get confused and schedule the package for removal.  Also
    modularized and improved the counter-handling functions and changed the
    counter update method so that systems with XFS filesystems that die
    unexpectedly will no longer get corrupted COUNTER files.  This should solve
    the an entire class of "my counter is corrupt" issues for XFS users.
  
    26 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: added exception
    handler to getcontents() so that it will gracefully ignore (with a warning)
    corrupt CONTENTS file lines.  This closes bug #5464.
    
    26 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: fixed a single-line
    indentation error that resulted in "emerge clean" ignoring some files.  This
    closes bug #5597,#4364.
    
    25 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: --noreplace is now
    off by default and works again; --onlydeps appears to be working again; and
    merge() will merge things as specified in display(), which was not the case
    before (I rolled 2.0.18 before fixing a few things I forgot about)
  
  *portage-2.0.18 (25 Jul 2002)
  
    25 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Close bug
    #5580; pkg_setup() now gets called during all build-related stages.
    
    24 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: rewrote
    create() function, closing bug #5469.  Also added freeze() and melt() methods
    to portdbapi to enhance performance.  create() is now extensively commented
    and even understandable.
    
    24 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: the "rsync --clean"
    option has been deprecated.  Cleaning is now on by default, closing bug
    #5527.
  
    24 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, make.globals:
    It should now be safe to do what Spider did in the gconf ebuild and add
    CONFIG_PROTECT and CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK to /etc/env.d entries.  Both variables
    are now incremental, just like USE, and you can use "-path" to turn a path
    off, or add CONFIG_PROTECT{_MASK}="path" to *add* a path to the list (this
    will not overwrite "parent" settings.  Also added "/etc/env.d/" to
    CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK in /etc/make.globals.  Also, very importantly, /etc/env.d
    is now hard-coded into CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK as it was in earlier versions of
    Portage and cannot be removed.
    
    24 Jul 2002: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge, portage.py: two
    fixes; first, I removed xcache.p support from portage.py.  The code was
    designed based on the false theory that directory mtimes are updated whenever
    an object inside that directory is modified.  That is not the case -- it
    happens when the directory listing itself changes.  Also fixed overly verbose
    emerge merging error.
    
    23 Jul 2002; Phil Bordelon <sunflare@gentoo.org> emerge.1: Updated the man
    page to match some changes in the latest version of portage, along with some
    fixes recommended by drobbins.
  
  *portage-2.0.17 (23 Jul 2002)
  
    23 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fixed a bug
    pointed out by trance -- dep_nomatch() was still using the old (deleted)
    match() function.  Now it's using a new match() method.
  
  *portage-2.0.16 (22 Jul 2002)
  
    22 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: changed xcache
    behavior so that the cache gets totally thrown away when the masks are
    updated.  Also revamped carpaski's code so we can avoid loading xcache from
    disk if we simply plan to throw it away.  This necessitated the creation of a
    new file in /var/cache/edb: mtimes.  This file stores mtimes for various
    important filesystem objects.  Also added support to not regenerate the GNU
    info directory index if the mtime on /usr/share/info has not changed since
    previous invocation.
  
    22 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: moved
    security handling code from emerge to portage.py; also moved group "wheel"
    check to portage.py.  Added additional security checks and permissions fixes
    to the cache handling functions.
  
    22 Jul 2002: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: fixed a bug
    reported by woodchip related to merging packages.  When using --usepkg, a
    package wouldn't be used if there was a newer unmasked version of the ebuild
    available, even if the package in question was the right selection.
    
    22 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: fixed create() code
    and consolidated some functions.  My goal is to simplify the emerge code
    until it's clean, at which point we can begin adding new features to emerge
    like more SLOT-friendly decision making.
  
    22 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: was able to
    remove 130 or so lines of code by depreciating the match() function (replaced
    by the match2() method.) I also rennovated the binarytree code to take
    advantage of fakedbapi.
  
    22 Jul 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> portage.py: added the
    xcache.p fix and updated the version to 2.0.16pre (from 2.0.12) -- Also added
    in a try/except inside the store() (atexit) for xcache.p to give hints
    instead of tracebacks.
  
    22 Jul 2002; Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> emerge: added the
    description searching code and added a spinner to the search.
  
    21 Jul 2002; Phil Bordelon <sunflare@gentoo.org> emerge.1: Finished the
    rewrite of the emerge man page.
      
    21 Jul 2002; Phil Bordelon <sunflare@gentoo.org> emerge: Readded the sync
    help to the list of help options now that emerge --help sync works again.
  
  *portage-2.0.15 (16 Jul 2002)
  
    15 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emake: no longer falls back
    to plain old "make" if parallel make fails.  I believe it's best to fix the
    problem (turn parallel make off in the ebuild) rather than tweak emake to
    avoid it.
    
    15 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: rewrote some code,
    cleaning things up and removing redundant functions.  Starting to
    de-cruftify.
  
    15 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: fix for permissions
    when updating the cache using server-generated entries.
  
  *portage-2.0.14 (15 Jul 2002)
    
    15 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: ccache bug fix;
    removed extra "!".  Ccache should now get enabled properly.  Also, INHERITED
    variable is now getting added to the dep cache entries for future
    eclass-friendly caching.
    
    15 Jul 2002: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Portage now
    *persistently* caches xmatch() calculations.  This appears to speed things up
    but we will need to limit the size of the new xcache.p in future versions of
    Portage.
  
    15 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: Portage
    now has keyword-based masking enabled.  It also has server-side caching
    enabled to eliminate "emerge pre-Calculating dependencies... delay" for
    end-users.  There is now an undocumented "regen" option for emerge that tells
    Portage to ensure that all entries in /var/cache/edb/dep are up-to-date.
    This is intended mainly for developers, as the server-side caching feature
    should ensure that all dep cache entries are up-to-date for end-users.
  
    15 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> repoman: repoman now checks
    for ebuilds that generate output as well as ebuilds that return a non-zero
    error code when sourced.  For this test to detect all failures, you need to
    wipe out your /var/cache/edb/dep/* before running repoman.  This design quirk
    is necessary to preserve existing emerge behavior.
  
    13 Jul 2002: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Removed
    Azarah's ebuildsh() function as it breaks pkg_setup() again.  pkg_setup()
    needs to be called as part of the same process as any other ebuil.sh command
    so that environment vars set in pkg_setup() are preserved through the rest of
    the build process.
    
    13 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: changed calling
    convention for doebuild("depend").
  
    13 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: removed
    erroneous "local dbkeys" that was outside of a function.  This fixes some
    cache update problems.  Added INHERIT to our cache entries so we can
    correctly update the cache for eclass ebuilds.
    
    12 Jul 2002; Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org> make.globals, make.globals.ppc:
    remove default KDE2DIR, KDE3DIR settings and comments. The kde eclasses will
    now handle the case where they are not defined. This will be used with kde
    3.1 and later, and the difference between their default value and them not
    being defined is important.
  
  *portage-2.0.13 (11 Jul 2002)
  
    11 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> tarball.sh: our tarball
    script didn't clean the src/sandbox directory before creating our distribution
    tarball. This resulted in src/sandbox/sandbox (the executable) being distributed,
    and the "make" in the ebuild thinking everything was up-to-date.  The result?
    Everyone in the world got a sandbox compiled with gcc 3.1.  This has been
    fixed, closing bug #4867, #4851.
    
    10 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: removed some
    bogus code that snuck in.  pkg_setup() is no longer called when installing a
    tbz2.  All tbz2 stuff should be done in pkg_pre/postinst().
  
  *portage-2.0.12 (10 Jul 2002)
  
    10 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ccache support is now
    controlled via a "ccache" FEATURES variable, which is enabled in make.globals
    my default.  ccache support can now be turned off by adding a
    FEATURES="-ccache" to /etc/make.conf.  Also, CCACHE_DIR correctly detected
    and utilized.
  
    10 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: "emerge --help
    rsync" now works correctly and displays rync help rather than rsyncing.  This
    closes bug #4438, #4629.
  
    10 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Portage now
    prints a friendly error if PORTAGE_TMPDIR doesn't exist or is not a
    directory.  This effectively closes bug #4360.
  
    10 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: the "inject",
    "sync" and "rsync" actions no longer allow "--pretend" or "-p" to be
    specified. This closes bug #4352.
    
    10 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> sandbox.c: use realpath()
    to expand the PORTAGE_TMPDIR, /var/tmp, /tmp paths.  This allows write access
    to these directories even if /var or /var/tmp is a symlink, for example.
    Without this fix, access to these directories will be denied by the sandbox,
    creating a bunch of problems.  Closes bugs #4256, #2379, #4625, #2931, #4829.
  
    10 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> megadigest, megadownload,
    megatouch, pkgsearch: removed from the bin/ directory; deprecated.
  
    10 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge, quickpkg: remove
    hard-coded references to "/usr/portage" in "emerge search", quickpkg.  Now
    correctly uses PORTDIR instead.  Closes bug #4836.
  
    10 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: emerge now checks
    to see if the "wheel" group exists before running; if it doesn't, it exits
    with a polite error message.  Closes bug #4736.
    
    08 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: changed the
    unmerge() code so that it doesn't use mtimes to test whether a symlink
    should be unmerged, since mtimes and symlinks are weird partners.  Instead,
    we save unmerging of our symlinks until the end of the code, and unmerge
    them only if their target no longer exists.  This closes bug #4491.
    
    08 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: check whether
    ebuild actually exists immediately before running pkg_postint() and
    pkg_preinst() from the dblink merge() method.  Also change all PKG_TMPDIR
    references to PORTAGE_TMPDIR plus suffix, closing bug #4447, #4853.
  
  *portage-2.0.11 (07 Jul 2002)
  
    07 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: rewrote
    portdbapi's xmatch() and visible() to fix significant bugs.  Logic errors in
    both methods caused ~ deps to not work correctly.  After the rewrite,
    dependency checking is now 44% faster.
  
    07 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> repoman, portage.py: Added
    new DEPEND and RDEPEND.badmasked categories to repoman.  repoman now checks
    dependencies of masked packages using *all* ebuilds, rather than trying to
    match them against all visible ebuilds.  DEPEND.bad and RDEPEND.bad (used to
    be ".unsolvable") now only tally visible ebuilds, not masked ones.
  
  *portage-2.0.10 (06 Jul 2002)
  
    05 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, repoman: Added
    new capabilities to repoman -- the ability to detect unsolvable DEPEND and
    RDEPEND variables, missing DESCRIPTION, LICENSE, KEYWORDS and SLOT.  Fixed
    repoman so that adding a comment with quotes in it doesn't break things.
    Added a few tiny extensions to portage.py to support the new repoman
    features.
    
    03 Jul 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: some ebuilds
    like gcc do not use $S to build the package in, and this causes generated .la
    files (libtool) to contain $WORKDIR in them.  We thus export $WORKDIR in
    ebuild.sh as well, to go along with fixes to the libtool-portage patch.
  
    02 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: pkg_setup() now
    gets called before a tbz2 is installed, and pkg_preinst() and postinst() get
    called at the right times as well.
    
    01 Jul 2002; Phil Bordelon <sunflare@gentoo.org> emerge: "emerge --help
    rsync" does an rsync instead of printing help.  Until this is fixed, I
    removed it from the list of detailed help options.
  
  *portage-2.0.9 (01 Jul 2002)
  
    01 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> Added missing .match()
    method to portdbapi.
    
    01 Jul 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added new
    operator for dependencies: DEPEND="foo? bar : oni" will use oni if foo isn't
    set.  Added "||" support back after removing it from my working copy; looks
    ok.
    
    29 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, make.globals,
    make.globals.ppc: internalized definitions of BUILDDIR and PKG_TMPDIR in
    order to make things work as expected when one sets PORTAGE_TMPDIR.  The new
    config file var expansion algorithm made this change necessary.
    
    29 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fix doebuild()
    so that pkg_setup() gets called when a .tbz2 package is being built.  This
    closes bug #3673.
    
    29 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: tweaked the
    aux_get() code to automatically regenerate cache files if they have the
    incorrect number of entries.  Added an additional fix to this code on 01 Jul
    2002.
    
    29 Jun 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> portage.py: merge in some
    of the missing ld.so.preload fixes again.
  
    29 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: new version
    with highly-optimized dependency calculation caching, particularly for
    portdbapi.  Includes new three-level caching portdbapi xmatch() method.
   
    27 Jun 2002; Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Added keepdir()
    function so that it no longer has to be hardcoded in ebuilds.
  
  *portage-2.0.8 (27 Jun 2002)
   
    27 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: in an attempt to
    provide a predictable release of Portage, I'm reverting the "emerge
    --pretend" "fix" in Portage-2.0.6.  It ignores custom USE settings when
    calculating child deps, which makes things tricky for users.  We'll use the
    "expected" (old) behavior for now until we have a solution for this USE
    issue.
    
    27 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fixed handling
    of ! deps in match(), closing bug #4219.  Thanks Spidler!
  
    27 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: disabled USE
    regeneration on reset() for performance purposes.
  
  *portage-2.0.7 (26 Jun 2002)
  
    26 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: add a friendly
    error handler for aux_get() so that flaky ebuilds don't cause it to trip up
    with a cryptic traceback; users will get a friendly error message instead.
    Also, temporarily disable keyword-based masking, since it currently slows
    down Portage by quite a bit since it causes a much greater set of ebuilds to
    be cached.
  
  *portage-2.0.6 (25 Jun 2002)
  
    25 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: rewrote the
    config file code to make things more sane, consistent, and made infinite
    loops during variable expansion a thing of the past.  This closes bug #3952.
    
    25 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge, portage.py,
    ebuild.sh: "emerge --pretend" and "emerge search" now work for the root user
    as well as any users in the "wheel" group.  emerge will now gracefully exit
    if "emerge search" is run by someone not in the "wheel" group.  This closes
    bug #4121.
    
    25 Jun 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> bin/{dolib.so,preplib.so}:
    Also change "strip --strip-unneeded" to "strip --strip-debug" for these.
    Look at bugs #2702,#3929,#4027 for more info.
  
    25 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: "emerge -u" now
    correctly scans dependencies of packages, even if they are up-to-date, to
    determine if any of their dependencies need updating.  Previously, up-to-date
    packages were not scanned in this way, which was a bug.
    
    24 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Portage will now
    automatically take advantage of ccache if the >=dev-util/ccache-1.9 ebuild is
    installed.  Removing /var/cache/ccache hole in the sandbox.
  
  *portage-2.0.5 (24 Jun 2002)
  
    23 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: basic keyword-
    based masking is now active.  New support for KEYWORDS in ebuilds and
    ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in profiles.
  
    23 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> conf files: removed
    references to non-functional FTP_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY and added a note about
    how to use the correct vars (ftp_proxy and http_proxy.)  Closes bug #1664.
    Also added note about RSYNC_PROXY, closing bug #2332.
  
    23 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: removed
    "dependency too short" checks which weren't working and were causing deps
    like "mc" and "ed" to be rejected as invalid rather than being expanded.
  
    23 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: upgraded "clean"
    code to be more robust, consistent. Closes bug #3967.
  
  *portage-2.0.4 (20 Jun 2002)
  
    20 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> in the 2.0.4 ebuild itself:
    added back tbz2tool symlink which was mistakenly removed.  Also changed the
    way we compile portage.py stuff so that we remove the previously compiled
    files, just in case clock skew cause them to seem more recent than they
    really are.  Python byte-code compilation moved to pkg_postinst()
  
    20 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fixed up the
    fetch() code so that invalid digests don't cause a traceback.
  
    20 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: some of the new
    transplanted virtuals code assumed that profiledir was set, which is not 
    required.  This code has now been fixed to not make that assumption.
  
  *portage-2.0.3 (20 Jun 2002)
  
    20 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fixed two typos
    pointed out by stroke and g2boojum.  These fix unmerge and some aspect of
    virtuals handling, which was previously causing a traceback.
    
    19 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: emerge -eup world
    now will ignore world entries if it isn't really installed locally; in 2.0.1,
    --emptytree would auto-enable all world entries, leading to inconsistent
    package lists between --emptytree and without.
  
  *portage-2.0.2 (19 Jun 2002)
  
    19 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> make.conf.ppc,
    make.globals.ppc: integrated these files into our sources.
    
    19 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fixed a bug
    where ROOT="" would not get properly converted to ROOT="/".
    
    18 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: Portage 2.0+ has
    fixed "!" depend matching support, but some code in emerge was designed to
    anticipate the incorrect behavior.  This emerge code has been fixed to work
    correctly.  This closes my part of bug #3834.
    
    18 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: fixed
    bug #2444, where emerge fails when "--emptytree" and "--onlydeps" are used at
    the same time.
    
    18 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: new
    fakedbapi for doing emptytree calculations; emptytree upgrades in emerge.
    "emerge -upe world" now works correctly, accounting for items in the world
    profile.  Yay!  Bugs #3832 and #1911 fixed.
    
    18 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge:
    Integrated new aux_get() method into our portdbapi.  aux_get() provides a
    standardized way to get cached information about ebuilds, and is now fully
    integrated into Portage and emerge search.
  
    18 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fixed a bug
    where dep_nomatch() was testing for None rather than a "zero" condition,
    causing dep_nomatch() to choke on match()'s [] return value.
    
    17 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: added an exception
    handler to catch invalid regular expressions and avoid a traceback.
    
    17 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> sandbox.c: added
    /var/cache/ccache to sandbox "write ok" list, closing bug #3028.
  
  *portage-2.0.1 (16 Jun 2002)
  
    16 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: fixed a
    virtuals expansion bug that would cause virtuals to be consulted too early.
  
  *portage-2.0 (16 Jun 2002)
  
    16 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, ebuild.sh,
    emerge: turbo-ified Portage, new Portage db API and many other fixes.
    Unmerging now works again (bug introduced several releases ago.)  I
    originally wanted to hold off on releasing 2.0, but since several major bugs
    are fixed, we need to get these fixes out to our users ASAP.  We will be
    releasing 2.1 in about a week which should include additional refinements.
  
    16 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> repoman: New repoman
    commit/check QA tool for developers.
  
    10 Jun 2002; Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org> make.conf: Update the ibiblio
    mirror path; it is now www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo.
  
    10 Jun 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh : Some users have
    $TMPDIR to a custom dir in their home ...this will cause sandbox errors with
    some ./configure scripts or libtool, so set it to $T.
  
    10 Jun 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> portage.py : Merge in the
    ld.so.preload changes.  Also updated spawn() to only run sandbox if
    buildphase is one of clean, unpack, compile or install. This should fix the
    handler not detecting some instances of sandbox running.  Updated ebuildsh()
    to set buildphase="" on spawn exit.
  
    10 Jun 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
    portage.py.ldsopreload,testsandbox.sh : Add support to test if another
    sandbox is running, if so dont delete /etc/ld.so.preload on kill.  I did not
    commit this to portage.py, as it is a bit more changes than we originally
    though.
  
    05 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: doebuild() now
    has proper logic for digest generation.  Digest will now get regenerated if
    "ebuild digest" is run, even if "digest" is in FEATURES.
    
    04 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: fixed typo in
    "inject" documentation.
    
    02 Jun 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> bin/dosym: changed the
    command used from "ln -sf" to "ln -snf" as it created a symlink in the target
    directory if the linkname already existed (only if the target is a
    directory).  Im guessing this should be fixed in the python merged code if
    symlinks are not unlinked before the new is merged into place .. will add a
    bug later.
  
  *portage-1.9.14 (01 Jun 2002)
  
    01 Jun 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: when a file to
    be merged is identical to the one currently on disk (using the md5 test), we
    now at least correctly update the target's mtime and atime so that cleaning
    will work correctly.
    
    27 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> bin/do*: changed "return"s
    to "exit 1".  Closes bug #3078.
  
  *portage-1.9.13 (21 May 2002)
  
    21 May 2002; Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org> emerge.1: Updated man page.
    Thanks to carpaski@twobit.net.  
  
    20 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: a fix for dep
    regeneration; stale dep cache entries should now be properly regenerated.
  
  *portage-1.9.12 (16 May 2002)
  
    16 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: the settings
    for A and AA were swapped; this has now been fixed, closing bug #1634.
    
    15 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fixed up some
    quirks in the new fetch code which were reported by Wout Mertens.  Thanks
    Wout!
  
  *portage-1.9.11 (13 May 2002)
  
    13 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: addition of 
    third-party mirroring code.  "mirror://sourceforge/foo.tar.gz" will use the
    /usr/portage/profiles/thirdpartymirrors file to define the mirror it will
    download from.  Multiple mirrors for a single keyword can be specified on a
    single line.  This code was based on the good work of Ryan Phillips.
    
    13 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: (entry on behalf
    of jnelson) -- we now have new KV detection/setting code that uses
    /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h to determine the kernel version -- the
    right way of doing things.  KV is set to "" if the kernel is not available or
    not configured.
    
    13 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: "abspath[x]" =>
    "abspath(x)" typo fix.  Also added 2-liner to allow for "emerge unmerge" to
    specify "foo/bar-1.0" rather than requiring "=foo/bar-1.0."  Also fixed
    problems when specifying the names of actual ebuilds in /var/db/pkg to
    unmerge.
    
  *portage-1.9.9 (06 May 2002) ??
  
    08 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: An empty
    USE_ORDER (due to an out-of-date /etc/make.globals) would cause USE to always
    be empty.  I added a reasonable default USE_ORDER if USE_ORDER is not found
    in any of the config files, fixing this problem.
    
    06 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: post bug #1841
    cleanups; converted from .hasnode() to .dep_match() (correct) in
    getworldlist().
  
  *portage-1.9.8 (06 May 2002)
  
    06 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: 2 fixes that seemed
    to get fried/zapped: bug #1841 and fixing an emerge sync error code to be
    more understandable.
  
  *portage-1.9.7 (06 May 2002)
  
    06 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: initial
    bunch of robustness/error-handling fixes.  Emerge should now report a
    comprehensible error message for errors in DEPEND and RDEPEND rather than
    giving a traceback.  Fixed dep_depreduce() to catch errors rather than
    passing them on to dep_bestmatch() (which doesn't check for errors and
    assumes correct input)
    
    02 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: typo fix for
    S_ISFIFO call; thanks woodchip!
  
  *portage-1.9.6 (02 May 2002)
  
    02 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> make.conf: SYNC variable
    correctly set to use our DNS round-robin system (rsync.gentoo.org).
  
  *portage-1.9.6_pre2 (01 May 2002)
  
    01 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: config file
    protection upgrade; we now record md5sums of previously-merged config protect
    files in /var/cache/edb/config; we use this information to avoid merging
    files that have been merged by us before (if it is safe to do so).  This 
    doesn't solve the problem of rolling back to a previously-merged version of
    a config file; we need to add cvs headers to every config file to get that
    to work.
    
  *portage-1.9.6_pre1 (01 May 2002)
  
    01 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: added "inject"
    capability to artificially satisfy a dep -- for situations when you don't
    want Portage to do it for you because you've taken care of it already.
    
    01 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: totally
    rewrote emerge's unmerge code.  The original code (added by Bevin) was a bit
    too cryptic and "big" for my taste.  Also added two new capabilities to
    portage.py's vartree: .getslot() and .gettimeval().  getslot() returns the
    slot value of a cat/pkg-v, if any, and gettimeval() returns a "time value"
    (based on mtime/COUNTER value) that can be used to determine the order in
    which packages got merged.  The purpose of these improvements were to revamp
    the existing Portage code that could only unmerge a db entry if there was a
    corresponding ebuild file.  This conflicted with the ability to "inject"
    packages (see above), so it needed to be changed.  Also fixed some bugs along
    the way.
    
    01 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: einstall now
    accepts arguments, closing bug #2275.  Thanks seemant! :)
    
    01 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> make.globals: switch SYNC
    var from cvs.gentoo.org to rsync.gentoo.org, and gentoo-x86-portage to
    gentoo-portage.
    
    30 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: now checks for
    errors (caused by bad deps) returned by create() and syscreate().
  
  *portage-1.9.5 (29 Apr 2002)
  
    29 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: added jnelson's
    KV_extract.awk script which extracts the kernel version from the actual
    kernel sources Makefile, making our KV setting much more robust!  Thanks Jon
    :)
    
    29 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: correctly fixed
    emerge search examples to use single quotes (to turn off globbing.)  This
    closes bug #1609.
  
    29 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: virtual entries
    for no-longer-installed packages now get automatically removed on unmerge.
    This closes bug #2255 and #1891 (Thilo Bangert's comment on #1891 is also
    fixed.)
  
  *portage-1.9.4 (29 Apr 2002)
  
    29 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added support
    for RESTRICT="nomirror".  If "mirror" is defined in FEATURES and "nomirror"
    is defined in RESTRICT, then files will not be fetched.
    
    29 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: Fixed docs for
    "unmerge", added docs for "--oneshot".  Closes bugs #2156 and #2182.
  
    29 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Fix for USE
    troubles; confirmed by Azarah as working :)  Also, we now strip the path
    from "KV" as we should.
  
  *portage-1.9.4_pre1 (26 Apr 2002)
  
    26 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> tarball.sh: no longer
    necessary for VERSION to equal "@portage_version@" to get the version
    auto-set.  VERSION can now be set to anything and tarball.sh will get it
    right.
    
    26 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: I've started work
    on revamping/improving the "blocks" system to get ready to fix bug #1891.
    Already fixed a bug where "blocks" ("!" deps) print out the wrong blocking
    package name. This is now fixed.  Blocks need additional testing.
    
    26 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, ebuild.sh, use:
    "use" is now a bash builtin function rather than an external python-based
    command.  This appears to fix the USE inconstencies, as it should, thereby
    closing bug #2000.
  
  *portage-1.9.3 (24 Apr 2002)
  
    24 Apr 2002; Jon Nelson <jnelson@gentoo.org>: portage.py, chkcontents:
    Emulate fchksum's md5 checksum routine.  Closes bug #2787.
    
    23 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: emerge: invalid
    short options result in an exit.  Closes bug #2025.
    
    22 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: emerge: rsync zlib
    compression enabled by default.
  
  *portage-1.9.2 (21 Apr 2002)
  
    21 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py: signal
    handler now zaps /etc/ld.so.preload if it's there -- this prevents it
    from hanging around and causing sandbox badness.
    
    21 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: emerge: fixed an
    error where --emptytree mode wouldn't really have a fully empty tree,
    due to the emptytree.inject() coming before the emptytree.root=None;
    the inject() caused a recalc of the USE vars, which caused the tree
    to become partially populated and it wasn't cleared.  This closes bug
    #1897.
    
    21 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py: package
    building now executes the "setup" stage along with the unpack, compile,
    install stages so that global variables can be shared.  This fixes an issue
    with woodchip's new apache ebuild and closes bug #1813.
  
  *portage-1.9.1 (16 Apr 2002)
  
    16 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: tiny (and forgotten)
    quick fix.
  
  *portage-1.9.0 (16 Apr 2002)
  
    16 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py: fetching
    should now try *all* alternate download locations, closing bug #1544. 
    Yay!
    
    15 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: emerge: "emerge R" now
    works correctly, closing bug #1094.
    
    15 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: ebuild.sh: *'s and ?'s in
    DEPEND and SRC_URI syntax should no longer get glob-expanded to files in
    /usr/portage.  This fixes some cryptic bugs.  It also closes bug #1473.
    
    15 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py: emerge --debug
    now works again.  Closes bug #1437.
    
    15 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py: moved argument
    check to the beginning of the doebuild() function to prevent "ebuild
    foo.ebuild fart" from causing the md5sums to be checked before recognizing
    that "fart" is not a valid command.  Closes bug #1823.
    
    15 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py: 'USE="-foo"
    emerge bar' should now work correctly and consistently.  Fixes to the config
    class.  Closes bug #1455.
    
    15 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py: applied
    jnelson's patch to properly kill all children when interrupted with ^C
    
    15 Apr 2002; Donny Davies <woodchip@gentoo.org>: make.conf: added a
    RESUMECOMMAND for lukemftp.
    
    15 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py: fixed up some
    "zing" logic inside the merge code (fixing variable being used before
    assignment errors)
    
    15 Apr 2002; Jon Nelson <jnelson@gentoo.org>: src/sandbox/Makefile,
    src/sandbox/problems/Makefile, src/sandbox/problems/sandbox_dev_fd_foo.c,
    src/sandbox/sandbox.c: Cleaned up Makefiles somewhat to take advantage of GNU
    Make, added '/dev/zero' and /dev/fd/' (<- note trailing slash) to the list of
    items accessible safely from the sandbox.  Added sandbox_dev_fd_foo.c to test
    for /dev/fd/<xx>.  The test is almost verbatim from the autoconf test suite.
  
    13 Apr 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>: ebuild.sh:
    Export $S and $D in dyn_compile and dyn_install, as our patched
    version of libtool uses these to fixup .la files.
  
  *portage-1.8.19 (09 Apr 2002)
  
    08 Apr 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org>: emerge: Removed --all switch to
    emerge unmerge and clea.  Added emerge prune which is the same as old emerge
    unmerge.  Emerge unmerge removes all instances again without any proctedtion,
    as before.  Added reporting of Omitted versions due to dep selectors.
    Renamed Removing and Keeping to Selected and Protected
  
    08 Apr 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org>: emerge, portage.py: Better
    unmerge and clean reporting.  Added homepage output to emerge --search.
    Bugfix when specifying a package without category that doesn't exist.
  
  *portage-1.8.18 (07 Apr 2002)
  
    07 Apr 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org>: make.globals, emerge:
    Simplified unmerge functionality. Deprecated the CLEANMODE var,
    emerge clean now removes both revisions and slots automatically,
    emerge unmerge now removes all versions and revisions by default.
    Both understand world and system targets, and the --all option which doesn't
    check which packages are old and outdated.
    Documentation fixes.
    AUTOCLEAN var addition and added the autoclean functionality.
    
  *portage-1.8.17 (05 Apr 2002)
  
    05 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py: no longer
    print out the counter number after a merge.  This information should not
    need to be known by end-users.
    
    05 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: sandbox.c: patched to
    allow access to /dev/vc from sandbox, allowing vim and screen to compile
    correctly from console.
    
    05 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py: fixed a bug
    that prevented md5 digests from being compared on archives.
    
    04 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: portage.py: Parse errors
    in /etc/env.d files no longer cause a traceback.
  
  *portage-1.8.16 (04 Apr 2002)
  
    04 Apr 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge : Forgot to
    commit my changes, this is an assembled version of both drobbins's and my
    changes
  
  *portage-1.8.15 (04 Apr 2002)
  
    04 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixed a
    semi-long standing bug where I was comparing atimes rather than mtimes when
    seeing if dep caches were stale.  This fixes a bug originally reported by Dan
    Armak.
    
  *portage-1.8.14 (04 Apr 2002)
  
    04 Apr 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge:
    Fixed short options for --all, --safe and clean.
    
  *portage-1.8.13 (04 Apr 2002)
  
    04 Apr 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge:
    Added emerge --all clean and emerge --safe unmerge.
    Made the counter updates atomic so that multiple merges can happen without
    risking counter clashes.
    Updated --help.
    Fixed short options bug that prevented two seperate short options to be
    specified successively.
  
  *portage-1.8.12 (04 Apr 2002)
  
    04 Apr 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge:
    implemented "emerge clean" with oldrevs, oldversions and oldslots options for
    the make.conf/make.globals CLEANMODE variable.
    
    03 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added an
    indentation fix to prevent merge from dying if a file attempts to install
    itself on top of an existing directory.  Closes bug #1498.
  
  *portage-1.8.11.1 (03 Apr 2002)
  
    03 Apr 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py: important fixes
    for movefile() -- changed the order of ownership / permissions settings since
    suid/guid bits were overwritten, added support back for 'ebuild config' since
    it was accidentally left out
  
  *portage-1.8.11 (02 Apr 2002)
  
    02 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: important fixes
    for movefile() -- ownership now preserved across filesystems, mv -f fallback
    for special files, other optimizations and robustness improvements.  Important
    fixes all-round.
  
    02 Apr 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge: 
    fixed bad indentation of a part of the code that made unmerging multiple
    packages behave badly
  
  *portage-1.8.10 (01 Apr 2002)
  
    01 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> make.globals: removed USE
    settings from make.globals.
  
    01 Apr 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: In trying to fix
    the glibc merge bug, we rewrote movefile() and it now runs blazingly fast.  I
    also tweaked the code to remove the need for an ">>> Updating mtimes..."
    stage.  This is all done dynamically now.  *Much* faster.  And hopefully
    solid for glibc upgraders.
  
  *portage-1.8.9.4 (01 Apr 2002)
  
    31 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: adapted
    movefile() which should preserves timestamps and ownership on files and
    symlinks it moves.
  
  *portage-1.8.9.3 (31 Mar 2002)
  
    31 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: promising
    rewrite of movefile() not only will probably fix glibc merge bug but also
    speeds up merging at least 20x!  Calling "mv" for every file really make
    things super-slow!
  
  *portage-1.8.9.2 (31 Mar 2002)
  
    31 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: desperate attempt
    to fix movefile() bug... a hack really.  glibc merges still dying.
  
  *portage-1.8.9.1 (31 Mar 2002)
  
    31 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: it appears that
    movefile() (using "/bin/mv") can still die if moving a new symlink on top of
    an existing library symlink.  Upon failure, we now use a fallback mechanism
    to use "/bin/sln" to create the new symlink safely.
  
  *portage-1.8.9 (30 Mar 2002)
  
    30 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: tiny cosmetic
    fix for digest generation.
    
    30 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: entries in the
    world profile will be ignored if at least one version of the package in
    question isn't already merged.  Prevents "--update world" from remerging
    packages that have since been unmerged.
    
    30 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> various: changing all
    references from /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python2.2.
    
    30 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> db-update.py: moving this
    script here from FILESDIR.
    
    30 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: stuff doesn't
    get added to the world profile if it is already an essential ("*") package in
    the system profile.  Keeps things clean and flexible.
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre38 (30 Mar 2002)
  
    30 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: resolve_key()
    didn't call load() on mapped virtuals, resulting in inconsistent resolution
    of virtual keys.  Now fixed; thanks to woodchip for the bug report.
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre37 (30 Mar 2002)
  
    30 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: specific
    provides (dev-lang/python-2.2) will be converted to their generic form
    (dev-lang/python) before being recorded.
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre36 (30 Mar 2002)
  
    30 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: new
    virtuals fixes and a db-upgrade.py script in the ebuild to solve another
    virtuals problem.
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre35 (29 Mar 2002)
  
    29 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: digest
    generation fixes; emerge --update will now update dependents even if the main
    package hasn't been updated.  getdict() fix, fixing a traceback.
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre34 (28 Mar 2002)
  
    28 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added an indent
    fix for the new virtuals code, eliminating a traceback.  Tweaked digest handling,
    fixing a cosmetic error.
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre33 (28 Mar 2002)
  
    28 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: tweaked digest
    creation in doebuild() to hopefully avoid creating digests twice.  I hope I
    didn't break anything in the process.
  
    28 Mar 2002: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: "emerge
    update" is now "emerge --update"; "world" added back.  New world
    implementation that works like this ... if you type "emerge media-gfx/gimp",
    media-gfx/gimp will be added to the "world" favorites file in
    /var/cache/edb/world.  This world file is added to the system profile in
    order to create the set of "world" packages to merge.  You can manually put
    specific deps (for pinning) in /var/cache/edb/world and they won't get
    overwritten.  To prevent a package that you specify on the emerge
    command-line from being added to the world profile, use the "--oneshot"
    option, which tells emerge that it should be merged once but not updated.
    
    28 Mar 2002: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: New virtuals
    implementation; new virtual info is recorded in /var/cache/edb/virtuals;
    virtuals data is created by merging the profile virtual info with the new
    edb/virtuals file.  Note: We no longer add virtual package entries to
    /var/db/pkg.  This change solves the bug where virtual files get auto-updated
    by pkg-update, and also solves the bug where doing an "emerge --update world"
    will cause ssmtp to be merged in order to satisfy the virtual/mta dep (which
    you already have satisfied by postfix, for example).  Now, postfix will be
    updated if necessary, but that's it. :)
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre32 (22 Mar 2002)
  
    22 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fixed a bug
    related to scanning for available binary packages, which would cause emerge
    to die.
    
    21 Mar 2002; Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org> portage.py: added ECLASSDIR
    (=$PORTDIR/eclass) to settings exported by python side to bash side.
    ebuild.sh: remove ECLASSDIR setting to use the one now provided by
    portage.py.  Also, clean inherit() and make it use debug-print().
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre31 (21 Mar 2002)
  
    21 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: Added Dan
    Armak's patch to enable eclasses. :)
    
    21 Mar 2002; Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org> portage.py: 
    Added a drobbins patch to at line 469.  Should fix emerge rsync
    problem when /etc/make.profile doesn't exist.
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre30 (20 Mar 2002)
  
    20 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: emerge
    --emptytree now works again and I added a new --nodeps option to emerge as
    well.
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre29 (20 Mar 2002)
  
    20 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: CONTENTS files
    now record the correct path when ROOT!="/".
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre28 (20 Mar 2002)
  
    20 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: an
    /etc/make.profile dir is now optional and portage will work if it's missing
    or is a broken symlink.
    
    20 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fix load()
    method in packagetree() class.
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre27 (19 Mar 2002)
  
    19 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py:
    /etc/make.profile/packages wasn't correctly masking core system packages;
    fixed.
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre26 (18 Mar 2002)
  
    18 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: configuration
    settings don't get loaded from ${ROOT}/etc anymore, just /etc.  This
    simplifies the creation of a new build image.
    
    18 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Don't expect a
    digest file if SRC_URI is set to "" or undefined.
  
    18 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: RDEPEND was getting set
    to DEPEND even if there was an RDEPEND="" in the ebuild.  This has now been
    fixed and RDEPEND will only get to DEPEND if RDEPEND has unset (not "unset
    or null", as it was before this fix.)
    
    18 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: emerge: circular
    dependencies error will result in the digraph dependencies being printed to
    stdout, greatly simplifying debugging.
    
    18 Mar 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org>: src/sandbox/problems: Added
    several sample implementations to reproduce reported bugs.
  
    18 Mar 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org>: libsandbox.c: All paths are now
    checked for multiple successive slashes anywhere, this closes bug 827.
    Performance should be slightly improved for other apps on the system for who
    the sandbox is not turned on.
    
    14 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: output.py: quick fix to
    turn off white color output -- not good for terminals with white background.
    This closes bug #1135.
    
    11 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: Applied karltk's version
    information patch.  Portage.py now contains version information, and this
    info is reported by "emerge --version".  Thanks Karl! :)
   
  *portage-1.8.9_pre25 (11 Mar 2002)
   
    10 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge: roll
    back portagetree incremental db optimizations to fix an important bug (no
    package.mask calculations being done.)  Emerge will now abort if a dependency
    can't be satisfied rather than printing just a warning.
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre24 (09 Mar 2002)
  
    09 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: fixed missing
    "--clean" option so "--clean rsync" should work again.  Also converted emerge
    to work with our new db layout (db objects are in the portage module now).
  
    09 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Added USE
    ordering, a concept envisioned by Vitaly Kushneriuk.  The idea is to allow
    customization of how Portage resolves USE variables.  The default is
    "env:conf:auto:defaults" (set in the USE_ORDER variable -- this default is
    now in make.globals but as always you should set your custom USE_ORDER in
    make.conf if desired.)  So, my default, USE settings will be calculated as
    follows.  The USE variables will be grabbed from the
    /etc/make.profile/make.defaults file (this is "defaults".) Then, the
    /etc/make.profile/use.defaults file will be consulted.  This file lists (one
    per line) a USE variable and a corresponding dependency.  If the dependency
    is satisfied, the USE variable is auto-enabled and added to our working list
    (this is "auto").  Then /etc/make.conf is consulted, so that the user has the
    option of force-enabling (with USE="foo") or force-disabling (with
    USE="-foo") any USE variables as desired (this is "conf".)  Then, the
    environment is consulted, allowing easy modifications from the command-line
    (this is "env").  Also added is the ability for USE settings to be
    dynamically regenerated in an efficient way as packages are merged.  So,
    right after xfree is emerged, the "X" use variable can be immediately
    auto-enabled.  Thanks to Vitaly for providing the vision for this.
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre23 (08 Mar 2002)
  
    09 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: our portage
    tree and /var/db/pkg tree now uses incremental caching rather than doing
    an exhaustive scan on startup.  This should speed up this respective code
    by 2-30x depending on how many packages you're emerging.  This involved
    quite a few changes to the code, and there could be some bugs, although I
    tried to be very careful.  These changes could also break code that access
    internal .tree[] dictionaries directly. 
    
    08 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: SRC_URIs with
    USE-enabled ( ) clauses in them weren't working because I was iterating
    through multi-level lists without flatten()ing them.  Now fixed.
    
    07 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: We no longer
    depend upon a file being unmerged.  We try to unlink during unmerge() in a
    "try" clause, with an exception for OSError.  If the directory is immutable
    then Portage continues gracefully.  This closes a bug reported by Verwilst --
    unmerging an old baselayout would die when it tried to delete /dev/shm.
    Fixed in Portage to eliminate these kinds of problems in the future.
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre22 (07 Mar 2002)
  
    07 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: I had
    sys.exit() in doebuild()'s fetch section.  Converted to "return 1" and
    "return 0" to be emerge --fetchonly friendly.  Thanks to Dan Armak for the
    bug report.
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre21 (07 Mar 2002)
  
    07 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: fixed symlink
    merge bug related to "safe" emerges.  This should fix problems of Portage
    dying when merging certain things.  I'm hoping that this fix will give us a
    solid merge implementation.  It should.  Thanks to Bart Verwilst for tracking
    down a merge problem that I could reproduce.
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre20 (06 Mar 2002)
  
    06 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh, others: users
    can now forcefully disable stripping of their ebuild binaries by adding a
    RESTRICT="nostrip" to their ebuild.  Additionally, the DEBUG variable has
    been renamed to DEBUGBUILD to prevent namespace collisions.  This closes bug
    #868.
    
    06 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py : Fixed a
    long-standing bug where the pkg_preinst() and pkg_postinst() functions being
    called came from the existing package ebuild in /var/db/pkg rather than the
    new ebuild being merged.  pkg_prerm() and pkg_postrm() still use the ebuild
    in /var/db/pkg, which is correct.  Thanks to Dan Armak for tracking down this
    bug.
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre19 (05 Mar 2002)
    
    05 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py : Fixed two bugs
    reported by Dan Armak relating to incomplete (not missing) message digests.
    They should now get regenerated automatically is "digest" is in FEATURES and
    not confuse the fetch code.
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre18 (04 Mar 2002)
  
    04 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py : Bug fix in
    dep_bestmatch(); rev comparison now works correctly and dep_bestmatch will
    properly handle 2-digit revisions in particular.  This closes bug #952.
    
    04 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py : Thanks to a
    bug report by Bruce Locke, the long-standing bug where symlinks with
    different mtimes would still get unmerged is now fixed.  This allows glibc
    (of all things) to be unmerged safely.  We needed this fix.  Closes bug #964.
    
    03 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py : KDEDIR ->
    KDEDIRS (fixing my typo)
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre17 (27 Feb 2002)
  
    27 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge : --help
    documentation is now up-to-date; short options tweaked.
    
    26 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py : Fixed an
    unmerge error caused by digests now being recorded in lowercase.  unmerge now
    compensates for 100% backwards compatibility.  Moved "continue" outside of
    "try" block since this is disallowed in Python.  This fixes a python warning
    during fetch.
    
    26 Feb 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> bin/dohtml : Added support for
    installing .gif files too since quite some docs still ship with those instead
    of .jpg or .png.
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre16 (25 Feb 2002)
  
    25 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge : emerge syntax
    changed back to "classic" style; replaced dots with spinner, did a major code
    cleanup and removed pieces that will be rewritten for 1.8.9 final.  emerge
    documentation isn't up-to-date at all; I'm holding off on the --help rewrite
    until after 1.8.9 features have been finalized (soon!)
   
    25 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> : Added RESTRICT variable
    to ebuilds.  If RESTRICT="fetch" is set in the ebuild, it means that the
    files listed in SRC_URI are simply filenames and that the real files must be
    downloaded manually.  This allows us to deal with realplayer, since
    overriding dyn_fetch is no longer an option now that we have the fetch code
    in python.  Also added a cosmetic tweak to emerge during info file
    regeneration.
    
    25 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> cnf/* : updated ${x} ->
    ${URI} in $FETCHCOMMAND.
  
    24 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> Fixed another fetch bug
    where the download wouldn't cycle to alternate mirrors (it'd get stuck on
    the first download location)
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre15 (24 Feb 2002)
  
    24 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: some fixing of
    the merge code; added automatic digest generation when "digest" is in
    FEATURES; made the fetch() code not depend on a pre-existing digest.  This
    should fix all known digest/fetch issues.
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre14 (23 Feb 2002)
  
    23 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: If you have a
    file that's hosted directly on our master ibiblio mirror, you can specify
    it in SRC_URI as "http://mirror/myfile.tar.bz2".  "http://mirror" will be
    expanded to the first mirror defined in GENTOO_MIRRORS, or our master ibiblio
    mirror if no mirrors are defined.  Groovy.  This closes bug #627.
    
    23 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> make.globals, emerge,
    portage.py: wget is no longer hardcoded; FETCHCOMMAND is enabled again, but
    uses ${FILE} and ${URI} instead of ${x} and ${y} now.  Added download
    resuming, which requires the definition of RESUMECOMMAND (added to
    make.globals).  Updated spawn() so that when it's called as spawn(foo,free=1)
    as an argument, sandboxing is turned off.  Replaced all calls to
    os.system(foo) with spawn(foo,free=1), since os.system() messes with signal
    handling.  Added a default SIGINT signal handler to portage.py so that ^C
    interrupts are handled correctly (portage will immediately exit with a return
    code of 1).  This has been tested and works for ebuild and emerge.  These
    additions should also close bug #407 and #760.
   
    23 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: spython -> python
    fix; resolution of cvs merge conflict.  Removed edepend assignment bug
    reintroduced in Geert's commit; added comment explaining why the new code is
    needed so it doesn't get removed again ;)
  
    22 Feb 2002; Geert Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge: removed spurious cvs
    conflict lines fixed bug in the cleanup code where different slots weren't
    handled too well
  
  *portage-1.8.9_pre13 (22 Feb 2002)
  
    22 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> various: fix /bin/sh
    symlink merge problems and massively simplified movefile() code.  Added back
    some emerge code so that "emerge --search rsync" doesn't run rsync.
  
  *portage 1.8.9_pre12 (22 Feb 2002)
  
    22 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: everything
    should now generate *lowercase* md5sums, fixing problems with digest 
    backwards compatibility.
    
    22 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: changed
    position of digest generation call so that "ebuild digest" now works if the
    sources have not yet been downloaded.
    
  *portage 1.8.9_pre11 (22 Feb 2002)
  
    22 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: unmerging now
    works correctly.
  
  *portage 1.8.9_pre10 (22 Feb 2002)
  
    22 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: "emerge" didn't like the
    new portage.py (fixed); A merge database bug (fixed).  Fixing the merge bug
    should also result in merges happening much faster than before, maybe up to 3
    times as fast.  We no longer resolve symlinks when testing protection paths.
  
  *portage 1.8.9_pre9 (21 Feb 2002)
  
    21 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: moved entirety of Portage
    download/digest code from ebuild.sh (bash) to portage.py (python).  No
    support for custom FETCHCOMMANDs yet, but that's coming soon.  Good news is
    that it appears to work well and allowed some cleanups and optimizations to
    doebuild().  SYNC support added.  See cnf/make.conf for more info --
    basically, "emerge rsync" (now callable via "emerge sync" as well) supports a
    configurable "Portage server" that begins either with "rsync://" or "cvs://".
    "emerge sync" is now not only a clean front-end, but a configurable front-end
    to the Portage update process.  I also removed dependency checking from
    'ebuild'.  This allowed me to removed some redundant code from portage.py,
    and seemed fine to do since 'ebuild' is more and more becoming a low-level
    developer tool.
    
    21 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>: rewrite of cumulative USE
    setting code so that the new FEATURES (what used to be called MAINTAINER) is
    now cumulative and supports "-" and "-*" options.  FEATURES is expanded using
    all config files, while USE ignores make.globals but uses everything else.
    Optimization of a couple parts of doebuild().  Upgraded expandpath() and used
    it in one place where it was removed accidentally (in the new merge code.)
    Master category list is now stored externally in
    ${PORTDIR}/profiles/categories for ease of maintenance.
    
    21 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge: now supports the
    EMERGE_OPTS make.conf variable for enabling emerge options by default.
    Closes bug #605.
    
    21 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: dep_match() now
    works with * deps (again?  Looks like the code got ripped out somehow); this
    closes bug #490.
    
    21 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> global change from
    "spython" -> "python", now that Portage is slick enough to update shared
    libraries correctly.
    
    21 Feb 2002; Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org> bin/chkcontents,
    man/chkcontents.1: New script to compare what's in a package's CONTENTS file
    with what's actually on the filesystem.  Useful for discovering that a
    package "collision" has occurred.
  
    21 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh, portage.py:
    Dependencies should be no longer checked during the "unpack" stage.  This
    closes bug #231.  Added the $KV kernel version variable to ebuild.sh so that
    it's available for all ebuilds.  This closes bug #599.
    
    21 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh: S now defaults
    to ${WORKDIR}/${P} if it isn't defined.  That's right.  Defining S is now
    optional :)  This should eliminate around 1000 lines from our ports tree.
    
    20 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py: Fixed some
    major bugs in the new merge/config protect code.  Merging and config
    protection should now work.
    
    18 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge,
    ebuild.sh : Rewrote merge code.  Should merge symlinks only *after* the
    target has been merged (needs testing).  Added lots of comments.  Split
    dblink.merge() into 2 new functions -- .walktree() and .mergeme().
    Cleaned/optimized merging a good deal.  Added special "-*" USE variable to
    unset *all* USE variables defined up until that point.  
    
    18 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py, emerge,
    ebuild.sh : Fixed USE bug (config.reset() threw away our cumulative USE),
    streamlined turbo dep calculations by moving edb cache entry creation to
    ebuild.sh.  Started coding new dblink.merge() method that should be much
    cleaner, faster and merge symlinks safely.
   
    17 Feb 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py : Added
    cumulative USE variable support.  The final USE var is calculated
    cumulatively starting with make.profile, then make.conf, and then the
    environment.  Any "-foo" option in USE will turn off a previously-defined USE
    setting.  So, if you want to use the profile-default USE settings except turn
    "X" off, you add 'USE="-X"' to /etc/make.conf and that's it.  This greatly
    simplifies USE variable maintenance since developers can now easily add new
    USE variables that default to 'on'.  Simply add the USE variable and then add
    it to make.profile.  It will then be included in everyone's USE variables
    automatically unless they explicitly "-newvar" in /etc/make.conf or in the
    local environment.  This also enables easy one-shot disabling of USE
    variables.  For example, to merge xchat without GNOME support (when "gnome"
    is in your /etc/make.conf USE variable), simply type "USE="-gnome" emerge
    net-irc/xchat".  This is a lot easier than temporarily tweaking
    /etc/make.conf.
   
    17 Feb 2002: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge : Added a quick hack
    to cache ebuild dependency info using extended attributes on XFS filesystems.
    Gives a factor of 10 speedup for dependency calculations.  Will look into a
    generic caching solution that should offer similar performance increases on
    all filesystems.  Note: the fact that this hack is on CVS means that emerge
    is currently in a hyper-experimental state and shouldn't be used right now.
   
    16 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge : added support for 'emerge
    cat/pkg-version' instead of always having to require 'emerge cat/pkg'
    
    15 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge : reimplemented the display
    of cleaned packages to clearly show all versions that are about to be removed
    and which versions are going to stay  
  
    13 Feb 2002; D.Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge :
    added --emptytree option
  
    13 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge, portage.py :
    fixed little bug where emerge --clean rsync wasn't correctly handled anymore
    implemented all new functionalities of emerge --clean, this adds --slots,
    --versions and --all options together with world and system modes
  
    12 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge, portage.py :
    changed emerge --zap to emerge --clean
    removed parts of the already implemented slots functionality to be able to
    fall back to a more flexible implementation. Binary compatible slots will now
    mostly influence emerge during the --clean operation
  
    12 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
    added fallback check in case UNMERGE_DELAY hasn't been defined in
    make.globals or make.conf
  
  *portage 1.8.9_pre8 (18 Feb 2002)
  
    12 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
    changed the rebuild code to use depgraph instead, dramatically reducing code
    duplication
  
    11 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
    changed indentation of a code part that wasn't at the right level. It got the
    count of the non slot packages during --zap completely wrong
  
  *portage 1.8.9_pre7 (11 Feb 2002)
  
    11 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    fixed bug in packagetree.dep_match() where a ~ dependency is returned as a
    string instead of as a list
    
    11 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
    - removed support for --all and world in 'emerge --unmerge', by default now
      all matching packages are removed since with the new slots functionality
      old package versions should not exists anymore
    - colored package name red too when a blocking package is found during
      pretend operation
    - changed emerge invocation arguments to be in a new universal interface
      format this has been decided to be :
    'emerge --action --option --option [packageset]'
    some features however don't respect this, but that's since they are not
    package installation related and are easier to use as straight commands
    eg: emerge rsync
    - added UNMERGE_DELAY var to make.globals and support it in emerge to obtain
      the number of seconds to wait
    - support for NOCOLOR="yes" as wel as NOCOLOR="true"
    - major speedups for emerge -search
    - added formatted package descriptions of the matches from emerge --search
      that nicely wrap at 80 chars
    - rewrote retrieval of package descriptions to support descriptions that are
      specified on multiple lines
    - added support for 'noslot' to --zap, --update and --rebuild
    
    11 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> sandbox.c, libsandbox.c :
    added checks to see if the files where information is written to are really
    regular files and not symlinks
  
  *portage 1.8.9_pre6 (10 Feb 2002)
  
    10 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
    added support for 'emerge --unmerge world' which removes all old package
    versions from the system
    made 'emerge --unmerge' take binary compatibility slots into account, this
    prevents that packages with different versions but also different slots, are
    being unmerged
    added support for "--verbose" in "emerge rebuild" and "emerge world" to
    provide details about packages that aren't in the local tree anymore and to
    notify the user about which packages don't support slots
  
    9 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
    added support for the rebuild mode which rebuilds all the packages on your
    system for which a corresponding package could be found in to portage tree
  
    9 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    renamed getEbuildPaths() or vartree to getebuildpaths()
    fixed bug in the merging of binary packages
  
    7 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> xpack.py :
    added additional argument to tbz2.getfile() which allows default content to
    be provided when the requested file couldn't be found in the tbz2 archive
  
    7 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh :
    added SLOT information as the third entry in the temporary deps file that is
    generated during ebuild depend,
    
    7 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    obtain SLOT information from the deps file instead of using the slotgrab()
    function, removed slotgrab() function, updated some comments
  
    7 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
    added SLOT information to the generated edepend var for binary packages
  
  *portage 1.8.9_pre5 (6 Feb 2002)
  
    6 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    fixed bugs where the old instance wasn't unmerged correctly if slots are
    identical, but ebuild version numbers not
  
    6 Feb 2002; Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org> cnf/make.conf :
    Copied proxy lines from make.globals (bug 431).
  
    6 Feb 2002; Vitaly Kushneriuk <vitaly@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    added missing SLOT param to merge(...).
    
  *portage 1.8.9_pre4 (6 Feb 2002)
  
    6 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    fixed some bugs in the handling of PROVIDES and virtual packages together
    with slots, they used code that wasn't upudated to the new dblink constructor
    virtuals now use "" as slot, resulting in normally to same behaviour as what
    has been done before.
    
    5 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
    sorted the packages to unmerge since this makes package names with revision
    endings appear before plain version numbers. This makes the unmerge code
    first remove the old and non slot aware packages before removing the newer
    alternative which is in fact exactly the same apart from the revision
    identifier.
  
  *portage 1.8.9_pre3 (5 Feb 2002)
  
    5 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    only let the backward compatibility algorithm kick in during unmerge since
    it's impossible to correctly detect is in general.
  
  *portage 1.8.9_pre2 (5 Feb 2002)
  
    5 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    fixed bug in the backward compatibility algorithm
  
  *portage 1.8.9_pre1 (5 Feb 2002)
  
    4 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh, emerge, portage.py :
    added binary compatibility slots, this also contains additional code to keep
    the unmerging of packages backwards compatible.
    
    4 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    added back support for the "ebuild help" command which seems to have
    disappeared somewhere along the updates
    
    4 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> make.conf, make.globals :
    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
    
    4 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> output.py :
    bugfix, write read() function instead of red(), doh !
    
    4 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge, portage.py :
    implemented the ! dependency which prevents incompatible packages to be
    installed on the same system at the same time
  
    4 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
    most emerge invocation options now have alternative short flags
    
    4 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
    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
    
    3 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> output.py, emerge,make.globals :
    all output can now be turned to black and white by using the functions in 
    output.py, this determines the mode by checking to NOCOLOR variable in
    make.conf or make.globals
  
    3 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
    made it possible to run emerge --help and --search as non root
  
  *portage 1.8.8-r1 (1 Feb 2002)
  
    1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py, ebuild.sh, ebuild.5 :
    added support for a pkg_setup() function which is executed before anything
    else and can be typically used for package configuration actions or required
    system checks
  
    1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    implemented the noauto MAINTAINER flags for all relevant ebuild commands
  
    1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    make env-update disregard backup files
    
    1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
    added --pretend support instead of interactively asking to proceed,
    also added a delay before unmerging though to be sure
  
  *portage 1.8.8 (1 Feb 2002)
  
    1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
    added --safe switch to complement the --unmerge option
  
    1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    rewrote the packagename without category support to also graceously handle
    deps specifiers at the beginning, this shouldn't be used in the ebuilds, but
    are very handy when using emerge --unmerge
  
    1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
    added emerge --unmerge support
  
    1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    added packagename without category support in the dep_match function
  
  *portage 1.8.7 (30 Jan 2002)
  
    30 Jan 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    integrated and slightly adapted Brent Rahn's code to support package names
    without category
  
    30 Jan 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh :
    integrated and fixed Azarah's patch to fix the wrongly generated archive size
    in the digests
  
  *portage 1.8.6-r3 (28 Jan 2002)
  
    28 Jan 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    disabled warnings about non existant config file paths
  
    28 Jan 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> emerge :
    added verwilst pkgsearch code, which was turned into a seperate class and
    refactored for clarity and execution speed
  
    28 Jan 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    renamed _xxx vars to _prepart in Vitaly's code addition
  
  *portage 1.8.6-r2 (27 Jan 2002)
  
    24 Jan 2002; Vitaly Kushneriuk <vitaly@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    Fixed version compare code Also added test script to test future versions.
  
  *portage 1.8.6-r1 (24 Jan 2002)
  
    24 Jan 2002; Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@gentoo.org> dojar:
    Fixed typos.
    
  *portage 1.8.6 (23 Jan 2002)
  
    22 Jan 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> libsandbox.c :
    added an additional check for SANDBOX_ON to optimize the speed in the execvp
    function call. Also removed error messages being printed when the PATH var
    isn't set.
    
    20 Jan 2002; Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@gentoo.org> dojar :
    added dojar shell command as a java JAR handler
  
    17 Jan 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> :
    The package chosen by "emerge sys-apps/shadow" now matches that chosen in an
    emerge update or emerge system.  I forgot to add some "*" dep code to the
    dep_nomatch() method; this is now fixed.
  
  *portage 1.8.5 (13 Jan 2002)
  
    13 Jan 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> ebuilds.sh, portage.py:
    added fine grained maintainer settings
  
  *portage 1.8.4 (13 Jan 2002)
  
    12 Jan 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> :
    "emerge sys-apps/bash/" now works. (trailing "/" stripped to make
    tab-completion users happy)  This fixes bug #119
  
    12 Jan 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> :
    Portage should no longer bomb out if the current working directory doesn't
    exist (has been deleted from underneath).
    
    12 Jan 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> :
    added "--world" option for "emerge update".   This tells Portage to update
    the base system *as well as* upgrade any packages that are currently
    installed but have new versions available.  This is your standard full system
    update command.  This fixes bug #122
  
    12 Jan 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> :
    Added an expandpath() cache which speeds up merging dramatically.
  
  *portage 1.8.3 (11 Jan 2002)
  
    11 Jan 2002; Mikael Hallendal <hallski@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh:
    added functions econf and einstall. Also made src_compile having a default
    implementation.
  
  *portage 1.8.2 (07 Jan 2002)
  
    07 Jan 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> :
    sandbox included in portage
    
  *portage 1.8.1 (30 Dec 2001)
  
    29 Dec 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> :
    "emerge update" is now functional!  Although the algorithm really should be
    sound, it is still considered in testing since we may need to tweak some
    dependencies.
  
    27 Dec 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> :
    Removed objprelink from the default USE variable.
  
  *portage 1.8.0 (22 Dec 2001)
  
    22 Dec 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> :
    I messed up the "transparent .so library" update.  Included is the correct
    fix, which seems to allow glibc to update on my system without any tricks.
    I just merged a new glibc while in X, without using any of glibc's old
    pkg_postinst/pkg_preinst hacks.
    
    21 Dec 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> make.defaults.5, make.conf.5 :
    Moved make.defaults.5 to make.conf.5 and updated contents.
  
  *portage 1.7.8 (21 Dec 2001)
  
    21 Dec 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    ebuild install doesn't throw away the compile directory if ebuild has been
    changed and MAINTAINER is set; we now use mv -f to move files into location
    on the filesystem, making our library install method even more robust. It
    should now be totally safe to  upgrade glibc while in X and playing music
    with xmms and surfing the Web and compiling 20 applications at once :)
  
  * portage 1.7.7 (14 Dec 2001)
  
    14 Dec 2001; Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org>: portage.py :
    movefile() now unlink()s the destination file first which solves shared
    library install problems.
  
  * portage 1.7.6 (13 Dec 2001)
  
    10 Dec 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    env_update() now generates an /etc/csh.env file in csh shell format.
  
  * portage 1.7.5 (13 Dec 2001)
  
    10 Dec 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    added a little fix so a ~ dep isn't satisfied by a *much* later installed
    version; i.e. ~media-libs/freetype-1.3.1 satisfied by
    media-libs/freetype-2.0.5 being installed.
    
    30 Nov 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild :
    added a KeyboardInterrupt handler so ^C'ing a running ebuild process doesn't
    produce a Python traceback.
  
  * portage 1.7.4 (29 Nov 2001)
  
    29 Nov 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    removed an unnecessary quirk in the code preventing virtual packages from
    being in any other category but "virtual".
    
    25 Nov 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> emerge :
    info file detection code has been improved.  
  
  * portage 1.7.3 (20 Nov 2001)
  
    20 Nov 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> pdb, pdb.cgi, xpak :
    used /usr/bin/python instead of /usr/bin/spython.  Fixed.
  
  * portage 1.7.2 (13 Nov 2001)
  
    13 Nov 2001; Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org> :
    emake will now try to build in parallel, and if it fails, will retry in
    non-parallel mode.
    
    13 Nov 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> ebuild.sh :
    an ebuild that used an archive with a name that was part of another archive
    would cause Portage to mess up the digest check.  No longer.
  
    31 Oct 2001; Donny Davies <woodchip@gentoo.org> make.conf, make.globals :
    comments about merging the fetch programs before trying to use them.
  
  * portage 1.7.1 (30 Oct 2001)
  
    30 Oct 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    I accidentally broke "=" deps by being sloppy when I added "*" deps.  Trivial
    fix applied.
  
  * portage 1.7 (29 Oct 2001)
  
    29 Oct 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    strange typo fix in the empty() digraph method.
  
  * portage 1.6.12 (29 Oct 2001)
  
    29 Oct 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    "*" deps now implemented. "=sys/foo-1*" matches the latest 1.x version/rev of
    sys/foo, but will not match a 2.x version.
  
    26 Oct 2001; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> portage.py :
    various new categories added.
  
  Portage 1.6.11, released 18 Oct 2001
  ====================================
  
    *portage.py; device nodes are now not unmerged at all.
  
  
  Portage 1.6.10, released 18 Oct 2001 
  ===================================
  
    *ebuild.sh: A and AA fix; now any A="foo" lines in the ebuild are ignored,
    allowing ebuilds with them to continue working.
    
    *portage.py: remove gnome-apps, gnome-office, gnome-libs, add gnome-extra
    categories.
  
    *ebuild.sh, portage.py: You can now use USE variables in SRC_URI to
    conditionally include archives.  In MAINTAINER mode, all archives are
    automatically included so that maintainers can check SRC_URIs and also
    generate complete digests.  A new file-based DEPEND and RDEPEND-passing
    mechanism has been added.
    
    *ebuild.sh Now adds filesize to the digest files
  
  Portage 1.6.9, released 15 Sep 2001
  ===================================
  
    *portage.py
    unmerge() now does not touch device nodes.  Unlinking them or touching them
    in any way is bad practice.
  
  
  Portage 1.6.8, released 12 Sep 2001
  ===================================
  
    *portage.py
    movefile() will now unlink() destfile if it is a symlink.  Should fix 
    problems where file gets created at symlink target rather than replacing
    the symlink.
  
    *queryhost.sh (agriffis)
    Parallel pinging and other fixes.
  
  Portage 1.6.7, released 05 Sep 2001
  ===================================
  
    *portage.py
    (last-minute fix)
    CONFIG_PROTECT unmerge protection is now observed for symlinks, fifos and
    device nodes.
    
    *portage.py
    Fixes for unmerging CONFIG_PROTECTed files.  Protected files are now *not*
    unlinked from the filesystem.  Messier but safer, and simplifies package
    upgrades.
  
    *emerge
    Emerge output cleanups for GNU info directory generation.  New --verbose
    mode; new CONFIG_PROTECT scanning feature to let people know when there are
    config files to be updated.  New "--help config" docs to explain how to
    do it.
  
  Portage 1.6.6, released 01 Sep 2001
  ====================================
  
    *portage.py
    Upgraded directory merging over existing objects.  Existing symlinks that
    point to existing directories will be kept and used as is; directories will
    be used as-is; any other objects (broken symlinks, files) will be copied
    to origfilename.backup and a ne directory will be created in its place.
  
  Portage 1.6.5, released 31 Aug 2001
  ====================================
    
    *emerge 
    Fixes for handling multiple ebuilds, packages and/or dependencies on
    the command-line.
  
    *portage.py 
    An optimization to the digraph class so that the firstzero() method finds
    matches in close to the order that keys were added to the digraph.
