I just did an emerge -u --deep world. It did not list the gentoo-source as a package it would upgrade, but I happened to look at the messages streaming by and saw that it was installing 2.4.20-r6.
That is very odd. Run 'regenworld' and 'emerge regen'. Read below.
I was kind-of surprised that I'd get a new kernel version so stealthily. qpkg shows I have r5 and r6 installed:
Perhaps emerge -Pp gentoo-sources would also be appropriate.
# qpkg -I -v gentoo-source sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r5 * sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r6 *
It isn't done by stealth. It *should* specify it in the list of updates. Perhaps it was the manner in which you listed the updates. I usually do a 'emerge -Duvp world'.
I have 2 questions. How would I have even known this got installed if I hadn't happened to see it scroll by?
Log the list of updates and log the entire update process. Examples are given below.
emerge -Duvlp world > /tmp/portage/list.log emerge -Du world | tee /tmp/portage/update.log
How do I find out what's in r6 to decide if I want to build/install/run it?
Take a look at the daily cvs changelog for all packages (on gentoo website and on mailing list) or individual version changelogs for packages by doing [1] or [2].
[1] emerge -l <packagename> (to list changelog entry for one package - do this before the update)
[2] emerge -Duvlp world (to list changelog entries for all package updates automatically - again do after emerge sync and before updating)
The -l flag only works on pending updates and not after the updates have been performed.
HTH.
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