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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: what's going on with updates ?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:54:41
Message-Id: 4C8E7353.1090205@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: what's going on with updates ? by "Stéphane Guedon"
1 Stéphane Guedon wrote:
2 > On Monday 13 September 2010 20:28:07 J. Roeleveld wrote:
3 >
4 >> On Monday 13 September 2010 20:15:24 Stéphane Guedon wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> On Monday 13 September 2010 21:06:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
7 >>>
8 >>>> On 09/13/2010 09:15 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote:
9 >>>>
10 >>>>> Since few days ( two or three ?), every time I launch emerge,
11 >>>>> it's
12 >>>>> saying me it needs an update of portage itself.
13 >>>>> In plus, I have upgraded udev at least two times (160>161>162
14 >>>>> today)...
15 >>>>>
16 >>>>> Plus, I have had two warning message concerning updates : sudo
17 >>>>> and an
18 >>>>> other...
19 >>>>>
20 >>>>> what's going on ? Is somebody founding security holes "à la
21 >>>>> pelle"
22 >>>>> (french expression).
23 >>>>>
24 >>>> emerge -al1 portage
25 >>>>
26 >>>> (Note the "l" option.)
27 >>>>
28 >>> today, one more ! portage to the 2.1.9.4 if I remember exactly !
29 >>>
30 >> Do you have "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS" set to something starting with a "~..."?
31 >>
32 >> If yes, then you can expect regular updates to further "unstable" versions.
33 >>
34 >> --
35 >> Joost
36 >>
37 > yes, of course... but... one release per day ? strange isn't it ?
38 >
39 >
40
41 That's not to strange. I have seen this with other packages before.
42 Keep in mind, portage is maintained by Gentoo devs so they could release
43 a version, see something that isn't working quite like they want, make
44 some changes and push them out for upgrades. I would much rather them
45 do that than wait a couple days while people are using a "buggy"
46 package. Only thing worse is to upgrade, then downgrade, wait a few
47 days and have to upgrade again.
48
49 My $0.02 worth.
50
51 Dale
52
53 :-) :-)