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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: what's going on with updates ?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:49:00
Message-Id: i6lrls$r5s$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: what's going on with updates ? by "Stéphane Guedon"
1 On 09/13/2010 09:37 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote:
2 > On Monday 13 September 2010 20:28:07 J. Roeleveld wrote:
3 >> On Monday 13 September 2010 20:15:24 Stéphane Guedon wrote:
4 >>> On Monday 13 September 2010 21:06:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
5 >>>> On 09/13/2010 09:15 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote:
6 >>>>> Since few days ( two or three ?), every time I launch emerge,
7 >>>>> it's
8 >>>>> saying me it needs an update of portage itself.
9 >>>>> In plus, I have upgraded udev at least two times (160>161>162
10 >>>>> today)...
11 >>>>>
12 >>>>> Plus, I have had two warning message concerning updates : sudo
13 >>>>> and an
14 >>>>> other...
15 >>>>>
16 >>>>> what's going on ? Is somebody founding security holes "à la
17 >>>>> pelle"
18 >>>>> (french expression).
19 >>>>
20 >>>> emerge -al1 portage
21 >>>>
22 >>>> (Note the "l" option.)
23 >>>
24 >>> today, one more ! portage to the 2.1.9.4 if I remember exactly !
25 >>
26 >> Do you have "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS" set to something starting with a "~..."?
27 >>
28 >> If yes, then you can expect regular updates to further "unstable" versions.
29 >>
30 >> --
31 >> Joost
32 >
33 > yes, of course... but... one release per day ? strange isn't it ?
34
35 No, not really. Developers push fixes for problems reported in
36 bugs.gentoo.org and ask the users to test whether the fixes work as
37 expected. It's normal that this can result in very fast version updates.
38
39 And as said previously, the "-l" option of emerge will tell you why an
40 update was pushed into portage.