what's going on with updates ?

09-13-2010, 06:15 AM

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).
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09-13-2010, 11:07 AM

On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 08:15 +0200, 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).

You can always read the ChangeLogs...

09-13-2010, 06:00 PM

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).

Have you tired emerge -uva portage and just see if it really has a
upgrade for portage?

Dale

:-) :-)

09-13-2010, 06:06 PM

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.)

09-13-2010, 06:15 PM

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 !
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09-13-2010, 06:28 PM

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

09-13-2010, 06:37 PM

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 ?

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09-13-2010, 06:45 PM

On Monday 13 September 2010 20:37:13 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 ?

I wouldn't expect people to run a Gentoo system with all packages on unstable.
I tend to only select specific packages as unstable when I really need that
version.

I wouldn't be surprised to have to upgrade a substantial set of packages on a
daily basis with that setting.

Why do you specify you want the latest versions and then get surprised when
you get new updates on a daily basis?

--
Joost

09-13-2010, 06:48 PM

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.

09-13-2010, 06:54 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 ?

That's not to strange. I have seen this with other packages before.
Keep in mind, portage is maintained by Gentoo devs so they could release
a version, see something that isn't working quite like they want, make
some changes and push them out for upgrades. I would much rather them
do that than wait a couple days while people are using a "buggy"
package. Only thing worse is to upgrade, then downgrade, wait a few
days and have to upgrade again.

My $0.02 worth.

Dale

:-) :-)