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

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

On 09/13/2010 09:37 PM, 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 ?

No, not really.  Developers push fixes for problems reported in 
bugs.gentoo.org and ask the users to test whether the fixes work as 
expected.  It's normal that this can result in very fast version updates.

And as said previously, the "-l" option of emerge will tell you why an 
update was pushed into portage.