On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 19:37 +0000, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:27:07 +0100, Alan Hourihane <alanh@...>
> wrote:
> > Everytime I do an emerge --sync I get the "Performing Global Updates"
> > message before it even starts to sync now, and it's only started
> > happening in the last few portage versions (can't remember which one
> > started it).
> > 
> > It performs the same updates everytime, even simple emerge's for new
> > packages too....
> > 
> > Why would this be happening ?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Alan.
> 
> Does it happen even if you do not issue a --sync between? AFAIK, if the
> mtime of the updates file in the profile dir changes then portage will
> preform updates. So, naturally, if gentoo devs are modifying this file
> everytime between your --sync time then this is proper. ;)

Yes it happens everytime, regardless of sync.

For example, if I do say....

emerge net-ftp/lftp

It does a bunch of updates before it starts "Calculating dependencies".

And for 

emerge --sync

It does a bunch of updates before the sync happens, then a bunch of them
again after it's finished.

Alan.