commit: 0ccb5635f682ef2e6c4c3d8a6c5cafe2a0f78fe7 Author: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Fri Oct 13 10:24:08 2023 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Fri Oct 13 10:24:08 2023 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=0ccb5635
NEWS: update Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo.org> NEWS | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7e29b3a083..be60d83d57 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -11,12 +11,20 @@ Bug fixes: * bintree: Add another API member (invalid_errors) to allow eclean-pkg to suppress errors when cleaning invalid binpkgs (bug #900224). +* repos.conf: Fix default value of sync-rsync-verify-max-age for ::gentoo. It + was previously '24' which allowed far too much time with a stale mirror and + could lead to users missing important updates. + +* Miscellaneous determinism/reproducibility fixes for binpkgs / environment (bug #914441). + * make.conf(5): Update MAKEOPTS guidance to reflect modern practice (bug #821529). * For locales that have UTF-8 filesystem encoding, use unicode strings rather than raw bytes for file paths in calls to python modules like os and shutil (bug #914722). + We recommend using a UTF-8 locale for both performance and correctness reasons. + * Eliminate unnecessary package reinstalls (bug #915494). portage-3.0.52 (2023-10-03)
