From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S0XBq-0003J6-Ux for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:50:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D4EAE0C9E; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:50:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com (mail-we0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C791E0C8A for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:49:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werp13 with SMTP id p13so804933wer.40 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:49:10 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of alan.mckinnon@gmail.com designates 10.216.136.211 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.216.136.211; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of alan.mckinnon@gmail.com designates 10.216.136.211 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=alan.mckinnon@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=alan.mckinnon@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.216.136.211]) by 10.216.136.211 with SMTP id w61mr635082wei.18.1329997750905 (num_hops = 1); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:49:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Zk5VK8vg+xNws1ty02QLn4+tgWZPr/Fs/fIOK3wb3yY=; b=gNdrRSr/tFfZTRT19FdgyVWTYlrtGC9NN6eyVi5Fp8T24+QBEmQ5jgL+H1LscDP2TY ZSs8u7WPO9y1cjgOEbcYF9U1zJdz3lOxL5LA+LawyiydO0vLeX8PV7HDcD8FUMW7zL1v AKKAi8I8TQmI9lsbi3x403dvRnrUrdkCDS4go= Received: by 10.216.136.211 with SMTP id w61mr520489wei.18.1329997750839; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:49:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-215-91-131.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.91.131]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id hs6sm5605713wib.2.2012.02.23.03.49.08 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:49:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:48:59 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates Message-ID: <20120223134859.6a099464@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <20120223112417.7a7e3e8f@hactar.digimed.co.uk> References: <20120223131601.158ccfd7@khamul.example.com> <20120223112417.7a7e3e8f@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0fda75c8-a9da-431f-b00b-edc27ebee640 X-Archives-Hash: 17e915c5236b93289d5586dcd9dae8ea On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:24:17 +0000 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:16:01 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Historically, when an update to portage came available, portage > > would put it at the head of the list, build it first, then re-run > > emerge world command. > > > > I've seen lately that this no longer happens, portage updates are > > any old place in the list just like all other packages. > > > > I'm wondering why this change happened, or if I somehow unknowingly > > set an option to disable the old behaviour )I'd liek it back). > > It's not just you, although it doesn't appear to be that random. > Generally the portage update comes at or near the end of the list > here. > > At least you get the rest of the world update done before a broken new > portage renders it unusable :-/ :-) I prefer to update portage first, just in case it co-coincides with some update to the tree I'm not worried about broken portage commits, I have FEATURES="buildsyspkg" enabled so as long as I have a working tar I'm good to go with any fix. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com