In all the time I've been using Gentoo, I've been used to portage updating itself first before any other upgrades when I do "emerge -DNuv world". This doesn't seem to be happening with recent versions of portage. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge --sync (pulls in a portage upgrade) 2. emerge -DNuvp world Actual Results: Here's the output: [snip] xfce-extra/xfkc/ xfce-extra/xfwm4-themes/ Number of files: 125936 Number of files transferred: 383 Total file size: 158195425 bytes Total transferred file size: 2131379 bytes Literal data: 2131379 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 3070794 File list generation time: 5.932 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 53807 Total bytes received: 3826008 sent 53807 bytes received 3826008 bytes 221703.71 bytes/sec total size is 158195425 speedup is 40.77 Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/2Q-2008 (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move' s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*' ................................ * An update to portage is available. It is _highly_ recommended * that you update portage now, before any other packages are updated. * To update portage, run 'emerge portage' now. $ sudo emerge -DNuvp world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] net-libs/gnutls-2.2.5 [2.2.3] USE="nls -bindist -doc -guile -lzo -zlib" 4,806 kB [ebuild U ] dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r4 [2.5.2-r3] USE="berkdb gdbm ipv6 ncurses readline ssl threads -bootstrap -build -doc -examples -sqlite -tk -ucs2 -wininst" 19 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.5.2 [2.1.5] USE="-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 5 kB Total: 3 packages (3 upgrades), Size of downloads: 4,829 kB Expected Results: In this case, would expect portage to upgrade first, before gnutls and python. Portage behavior may have changed in this regard, but I haven't seen any documentation to this effect.
This is fixed in portage-2.1.5.2.
