Bug 27283

Summary:	emerge sync always says "An update to portage is available"
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Georgi Georgiev <chutz+bugs.gentoo.org>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	minor	CC:	fork0
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Georgi Georgiev 2003-08-25 03:23:52 UTC

When I do an "emerge sync" I always get the well-known:

 * An update to portage is available. It is _highly_ recommended
 * that you update portage now, before any other packages are updated.
 * Please do so and then update ALL of your configuration files.

It is annoying.

I have a ~x86 masked version of portage installed, which I believe is the reason
for the message to appear every time.

# emerge -pv portage

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild     UD] sys-apps/portage-2.0.48-r5 [2.0.49_pre18] -build

Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-08-25 12:27:45 UTC

It should say that, and for most people it's _very_ good advice.
You are aware of the reason, so don't worry about it.

Comment 2 Georgi Georgiev 2003-08-26 19:37:29 UTC

I don't worry about it, but let's say I still use the 2.0.49_pre18. Then when 2.0.49 finally goes stable I would still pay no attention to the message, even though it would be a _very_ good idea to upgrade.

Isn't it possible for portage to check that the version it recommends me to upgrade to is really a higher version than the one I already have installed?

What I have in mind is the following:

$ diff /usr/lib/portage/bin/emerge{,.chutz}
1782c1782
<       if(mybestpv != mypvs):
---
>       if(mybestpv > mypvs):

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-09-21 09:10:30 UTC

*** Bug 29254 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***