On Thursday 07 February 2008, Steve Buzonas wrote: > > Digests in the portage tree are an old obsolete feature that has > > just recently finally been removed from the tree. Now gentoo uses a > > much better Manifest scheme. 'ebuild <ebuild-name> digest has done > > nothing for quite some time now (at least a full year maybe?), and > > the manifest option is the one that works. > > > > There's interesting information about this on the font page of > > gentoo.org right now > > > > -- > > Alan McKinnon > > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > -- > > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > I didn't realize that. I just used digest for my local overlay > yesterday. Does it still allow it, or do I have an outdated version > of portage?
I've found that for over a year now, digest has actually been creating the Manifest files as well. Things get a bit hazy for me here, but reading between the lines I believe that portage-2.1.* has always supported the new and old formats -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
