Yesterday, I started to create a Gentoo server, for ldap testing purposes. And, during night, I ran emerge -u world, without problem. This morning, I etc-updated all my configs files, and continued my installation. I then emerged dcron, and tried to emerge sysklogd. But I was surprised to see that portage told me sysklogd would be upgrated, insted of just installed. This means that : the stage3 already contains this system logger (not really a problem), but also, that this package, really important for any secure system, isn't in world or system package list ! Really not practical to track versions of this component. I made a search on the bugzilla system, and found this post, which explains the reasons of this choice : http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2409. I'm wondering if it would be possible to integrate this package in the system package list, and remove it when unmerging, instead of just leaving it out of any package list ? (I pointed this bug as major, because a bug in the system logger could be a major security issue). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -u system 2. emerge -u world 3. emerge sysklogd -pv Actual Results: I had this output : [ebuild U ] app-admin/sysklogd-1.4.1-r11 [1.4.1-r10] 79 kB Expected Results: It should maybe have already upgraded this package during the emerge -u system/world Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.4.27-1-386 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.27-1-386 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups dga encode f77 fbcon foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk2 icc imap imlib java jpeg kde libcaca libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
do you have any other loggers emerged on your system ?
No, this was a freshly installed system.
seems to be solved now. closing this bug. Thanks.
