On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 11:56 -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
> I've tried everything over the last couple of days to upgrade gnupg and 
> I get the same thing:
> 
> octavian ~ # emerge -u gnupg
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>  >>> Auto-cleaning packages...
> 
>  >>> No outdated packages were found on your system.
> 
> 
>  * GNU info directory index is up-to-date.
> 
> And it never gets upgraded.  Has anyone else seen this?
> 

That indicates that portage thinks you have the newest version already.
Which version do you have?  Which do you want?  Is the newer version
masked by either package.mask (/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask
or /etc/portage/package.mask)?  Is the newer version keyworded higher
than you accept?

Daniel