Re: [gentoo-user] Re: what's going on with updates ?

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Stéphane Guedon wrote:
> On Monday 13 September 2010 20:28:07 J. Roeleveld wrote:
>    
>> On Monday 13 September 2010 20:15:24 Stéphane Guedon wrote:
>>      
>>> On Monday 13 September 2010 21:06:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>        
>>>> On 09/13/2010 09:15 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote:
>>>>          
>>>>> Since few days ( two or three ?), every time I launch emerge,
>>>>> it's
>>>>> saying me it needs an update of portage itself.
>>>>> In plus, I have upgraded udev at least two times (160>161>162
>>>>> today)...
>>>>>
>>>>> Plus, I have had two warning message concerning updates : sudo
>>>>> and an
>>>>> other...
>>>>>
>>>>> what's going on ? Is somebody founding security holes "à la
>>>>> pelle"
>>>>> (french expression).
>>>>>            
>>>> emerge -al1 portage
>>>>
>>>> (Note the "l" option.)
>>>>          
>>> today, one more ! portage to the 2.1.9.4 if I remember exactly !
>>>        
>> Do you have "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS" set to something starting with a "~..."?
>>
>> If yes, then you can expect regular updates to further "unstable" versions.
>>
>> --
>> Joost
>>      
> yes, of course... but... one release per day ? strange isn't it ?
>
>    

That's not to strange.  I have seen this with other packages before.  
Keep in mind, portage is maintained by Gentoo devs so they could release 
a version, see something that isn't working quite like they want, make 
some changes and push them out for upgrades.  I would much rather them 
do that than wait a couple days while people are using a "buggy" 
package.  Only thing worse is to upgrade, then downgrade, wait a few 
days and have to upgrade again.

My $0.02 worth.

Dale

:-)  :-)