[gentoo-dev] Portage being odd

[gentoo-dev] Portage being odd

[MAL]

 >>> Updating Portage cache...  ...done!


  * An update to portage is available. It is _highly_ recommended
  * that you update portage now, before any other packages are updated.
  * Please do so and then update ALL of your configuration files.

-=[root@mal-11:45-mal]=- # emerge -pu portage

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!

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Where is this portage update of which is speaks?!

MAL


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage being odd

[Sven Vermeulen]

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On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:07:18PM +0000, MAL wrote:
>  * An update to portage is available. It is _highly_ recommended
>  * that you update portage now, before any other packages are updated.
>  * Please do so and then update ALL of your configuration files.
[...]
> Where is this portage update of which is speaks?!

It's there, but it's masked. So it should probably not tell you this in a
perfect world, but the code which checks for newer portage versions doesn't
check package.mask nor ACCEPT_KEYWORD yet.

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen

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