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

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Stéphane Guedon <stephane@22decembre.eu> 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).

From Changelog you can see, lots of bugs fixed in portage 2.1 in the
last few days:

*portage-2.1.9.1 (06 Sep 2010)

  06 Sep 2010; Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> +portage-2.1.9.1.ebuild:
  2.1.9.1 version bump. This fixes bug #336019 (show ebuild maintainer in
  build log), bug #336085 (AttributeError triggered by slot conflict), and
  bug #336285 (add unpack() workaround for interactive unzip). Bug #335925
  tracks all bugs fixed since 2.1.8.x.

*portage-2.1.9.2 (08 Sep 2010)

  08 Sep 2010; Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> +portage-2.1.9.2.ebuild:
  2.1.9.2 version bump. This fixes bug #332719 (depclean removes newly
  installed packages), bug #336338 (document FEATURES=candy), bug #336349
  (warn about dos-style line endings in make.conf), bug #336350
  (AttributeError for selinux), and bug #336356 (AttributeError when
  running test phase with ebuild command). Bug #335925 tracks all bugs
  fixed since 2.1.8.x.

*portage-2.1.9.3 (10 Sep 2010)

  10 Sep 2010; Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> +portage-2.1.9.3.ebuild:
  2.1.9.3 version bump. This fixes bug #267103 (warn about unapplied config
  updates in /etc/portage), bug #273282 (QA warning about install in
  deprecated directories), bug #336499 (call pkg_nofetch for misc fetch
  failures), bug #336503 (FEATURES=usersync tempdir permission issues),
  bug #336595 (--quiet support for "global updates"), bug #336644 (IOError
  [Errno 11] issues with tmpfs), and bug #336651 (fix resume after portage
  update to work with --exclude). Bug #335925 tracks all bugs fixed since
  2.1.8.x.

*portage-2.1.9.4 (11 Sep 2010)

  11 Sep 2010; Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> +portage-2.1.9.4.ebuild:
  2.1.9.4 version bump. This fixes bug #336692 (make package.mask negation
  in profiles PMS compliant and issue warnings) and also fixes subtle bugs
  in pkg_nofetch support. Bug #335925 tracks all bugs fixed since 2.1.8.x.

*portage-2.1.9.5 (13 Sep 2010)

  13 Sep 2010; Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> +portage-2.1.9.5.ebuild:
  2.1.9.5 version bump. This fixes bug #336142 (ebuild-ipc timeout is
  too short), bug #336875 (ETIME ImportError on FreeBSD), and bug #337031
  (make "always overflow destination buffers" gcc warnings non-fatal).
  Bug #335925 tracks all bugs fixed since 2.1.8.x.