Portage does not upgrade all packages. I ran into this with samba. Portage claims the last version is 3.0.14a-r2. When I look at /usr/portage/net-fs/samba, there are a plethora of newer versions available: ls /usr/portage/net-fs/samba/ ChangeLog metadata.xml samba-3.0.20-r1.ebuild samba-3.0.21a.ebuild Manifest samba-3.0.14a-r2.ebuild samba-3.0.20a.ebuild samba-3.0.21b.ebuild files samba-3.0.14a-r3.ebuild samba-3.0.20b.ebuild Now, WHY does not portage pick samba-3.0.21b, but insists, 3.0.14 is the latest: # emerge -s samba Searching... [ Results for search key : samba ] [ Applications found : 4 ] * net-fs/samba Latest version available: 3.0.14a-r2 Latest version installed: 3.0.14a-r2 Portage information: Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.11-gentoo-r7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r7 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 244 Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=opteron -m64" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=opteron -m64" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X X509 aalib acl alsa arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 crypt cscope cups curl directfb dts dvd eds emboss encode esd expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm ggi gif gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile imlib ipv6 jack java jpeg kde kerberos lcms ldap libcaca lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska mikmod mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl slang spell ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userlocales vorbis xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3
Because 3.0.14a-r2 is the latest *stable* version. Please go back and read the handbook again...specifically the parts about ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, unmasking ebuilds, etc.
Arno, I find this util quite handy. http://dev.gentoo.org/~robbat2/earch-0.9 solar@simple python $ earch samba samba-3.0.14a-r2[0]: alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86 samba-3.0.14a-r3[0]: ~sh samba-3.0.20-r1[0]: samba-3.0.20a[0]: samba-3.0.20b[0]: ~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sparc ~x86
