Re: [gentoo-amd64] Portage version error?

[Tonko]

As far as I know your version is masked to do some more testing..
I'd say keep it :P

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Mark Haney <mhaney@××××××××××××.org> wrote:
> 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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Tonko