[gentoo-amd64] Portage version error?

[Mark Haney]

Okay, I'm slightly confused.  Now, granted, I've been away from the 
computer for 5 days, but I'm pretty sure that's not enough to go soft in 
the head.  I sync'd portage this morning, and as usual get the 'there's 
a new version of portage available.... message.  This is typical, since, 
in order to upgrade to KDE4.1.3 I needed to use the ~amd64 version of 
pertage (now at 2.2_rc13 on my system).  However, I figured I needed to 
check to see if there was a newer one in ~amd64 just to keep up and this 
is what I got for output:

octavian ~ # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge -s portage
*  sys-apps/portage
       Latest version available: 2.1.6_rc2
       Latest version installed: 2.2_rc13
       Size of files: 564 kB
       Homepage:      http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/index.xml
       Description:   Portage is the package management and distribution 
system for Gentoo
       License:       GPL-2



Now, I'm not a math wiz, but IIRC 2.2 is greater than 2.1, right?  So, 
what's the deal here?  I'm hesitant to upgrade (as it might be a 
DOWNgrade), but if there's some behind the scenes changes going on, I'd 
like to know that too.

So, what do I do?

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