On Tuesday, 3 August 2021 15:51:15 BST Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 at 15:58, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > > I don't see them when syncing from a cron script, when all output is > > captured and emailed, but do when running sync on a shell. It seems you > > only see this when running sync interactively. > > I see these messages in the output from my cron "script". I use > "/usr/sbin/emaint sync -a", and it regularly shows the message about > new portage versions. > > The message might not be generated by the sync itself, but from the > postsync 'eix-update' which would maybe show messages like this.
I sync daily via git, and every time a new version of portage is included I see a prominent warning to update it before anything else. Portage has done this for many years, apart from a few months a year or two ago. -- Regards, Peter.
