On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Stéphane Guedon <[email protected]> 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).
>From Changelog you can see, lots of bugs fixed in portage 2.1 in the last few days: *portage-2.1.9.1 (06 Sep 2010) 06 Sep 2010; Zac Medico <[email protected]> +portage-2.1.9.1.ebuild: 2.1.9.1 version bump. This fixes bug #336019 (show ebuild maintainer in build log), bug #336085 (AttributeError triggered by slot conflict), and bug #336285 (add unpack() workaround for interactive unzip). Bug #335925 tracks all bugs fixed since 2.1.8.x. *portage-2.1.9.2 (08 Sep 2010) 08 Sep 2010; Zac Medico <[email protected]> +portage-2.1.9.2.ebuild: 2.1.9.2 version bump. This fixes bug #332719 (depclean removes newly installed packages), bug #336338 (document FEATURES=candy), bug #336349 (warn about dos-style line endings in make.conf), bug #336350 (AttributeError for selinux), and bug #336356 (AttributeError when running test phase with ebuild command). Bug #335925 tracks all bugs fixed since 2.1.8.x. *portage-2.1.9.3 (10 Sep 2010) 10 Sep 2010; Zac Medico <[email protected]> +portage-2.1.9.3.ebuild: 2.1.9.3 version bump. This fixes bug #267103 (warn about unapplied config updates in /etc/portage), bug #273282 (QA warning about install in deprecated directories), bug #336499 (call pkg_nofetch for misc fetch failures), bug #336503 (FEATURES=usersync tempdir permission issues), bug #336595 (--quiet support for "global updates"), bug #336644 (IOError [Errno 11] issues with tmpfs), and bug #336651 (fix resume after portage update to work with --exclude). Bug #335925 tracks all bugs fixed since 2.1.8.x. *portage-2.1.9.4 (11 Sep 2010) 11 Sep 2010; Zac Medico <[email protected]> +portage-2.1.9.4.ebuild: 2.1.9.4 version bump. This fixes bug #336692 (make package.mask negation in profiles PMS compliant and issue warnings) and also fixes subtle bugs in pkg_nofetch support. Bug #335925 tracks all bugs fixed since 2.1.8.x. *portage-2.1.9.5 (13 Sep 2010) 13 Sep 2010; Zac Medico <[email protected]> +portage-2.1.9.5.ebuild: 2.1.9.5 version bump. This fixes bug #336142 (ebuild-ipc timeout is too short), bug #336875 (ETIME ImportError on FreeBSD), and bug #337031 (make "always overflow destination buffers" gcc warnings non-fatal). Bug #335925 tracks all bugs fixed since 2.1.8.x.

