From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E90MW-0000rK-Kk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:04:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7RD2FLA005026; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:02:15 GMT Received: from s2.stud.uni-goettingen.de (s2.stud.uni-goettingen.de [134.76.60.22]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7RCv1N1028252 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:57:01 GMT Received: from [134.76.161.221] (helo=sub00421) by s2.stud.uni-goettingen.de with esmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.22) id 1E90Ga-0007gh-A1 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:58:36 +0200 Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:58:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Hans-Werner Hilse X-X-Sender: hw@sub00421.sub.uni-goettingen.de To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Closing message of emerge sync confusing In-Reply-To: <87slwvr1je.fsf@newsguy.com> Message-ID: References: <87slwvr1je.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: 1865bfbc-b08f-4385-a06d-5f3950f47f80 X-Archives-Hash: fbebcf6309583d303b6c68c0c5c77936 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list