From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OvE5M-0002fT-8m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:49:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B7BE7E09EF; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:48:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AA9BE09EF for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:48:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5196B1B4145 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:48:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.908 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.908 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.309, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 8MIufAycy-uk for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:48:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA1A01B4125 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:48:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OvE4y-0008Vj-BM for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:48:36 +0200 Received: from athedsl-376571.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.22.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:48:36 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-376571.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:48:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: what's going on with updates ? Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:48:52 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20100913183723.57A77E0746@pigeon.gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-376571.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100908 Thunderbird/3.1.3 In-Reply-To: <20100913183723.57A77E0746@pigeon.gentoo.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: d3b18978-7477-4366-9cb7-0d49f158e5c8 X-Archives-Hash: f83d46aff322a643cce8e710b9af426b On 09/13/2010 09:37 PM, St=C3=A9phane Guedon wrote: > On Monday 13 September 2010 20:28:07 J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Monday 13 September 2010 20:15:24 St=C3=A9phane Guedon wrote: >>> On Monday 13 September 2010 21:06:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>>> On 09/13/2010 09:15 AM, St=C3=A9phane 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 "=C3=A0 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" vers= ions. >> >> -- >> Joost > > yes, of course... but... one release per day ? strange isn't it ? No, not really. Developers push fixes for problems reported in=20 bugs.gentoo.org and ask the users to test whether the fixes work as=20 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=20 update was pushed into portage.