Translations:Handbook:Parts/Working/Portage/47/en

To keep the system in perfect shape (and not to mention install the latest security updates) it is necessary to update the system regularly. Since Portage only checks the ebuilds in the Gentoo repository, the first thing to do is to update this repository. When the Gentoo repository is updated, the system can be updated using. In the next example, the  option is also used which will tell Portage to display the list of packages it wants to upgrade and ask for confirmation: