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From: Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@web.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Closing message of emerge sync confusing
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:58:35 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508271456290.15752@sub00421.sub.uni-goettingen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87slwvr1je.fsf@newsguy.com>

Hi,

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Harry Putnam wrote:

> After running an emerge sync, I see a message at the conclusion that
> says:
>
> * 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.
>
> What does this mean...  I though I had just updated portage.  Or is a
> sync something different than an update?

You synced the portage _tree_. So you could say, you updated the portage 
_tree_. Portage itself is a piece of python coded software, installed and 
managed by - portage, i.e. itself. To update this software, you'd need to 
type

$ emerge -u portage

-hwh
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-27 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-27 12:45 [gentoo-user] Closing message of emerge sync confusing Harry Putnam
2005-08-27 12:53 ` Mike Williams
2005-08-27 13:04   ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2005-08-27 12:58 ` Hans-Werner Hilse [this message]

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