Re: [gentoo-user] Some update yesterday broke my system - which one

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 5:21 AM, Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××.be> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> some update yesterday which was not yet available on August, 1st,
complete broke my system.
> (Probably systemd-224)
>
> I couldn't do anything, especially no downgrading a package.
> I had to revert to a backup from July, 29th.
>
> It turned out that something has installed /lib/udev while removing the
symlink /lib -> /lib64 on my machine.
> Therefore /lib did contains nothing but udev which broke my system
completely.
>
> Has anybody made a similar experience or does anybody have explanation
for that?

I have 2 versions on systemd in different machines: 218 and 222. Both of
them install files in /lib and in /lib64. None of them touch the symbolic
link, and I don't see how they could do it. That pertains to portage; when
a package gets installed, it installs into /var/tmp (or wherever
PORTAGE_TMPDIR points to), and then portage merges the files
from PORTAGE_TMPDIR into the filesystem.

I don't see how the symbolic link from /lib to /lib64 could be modified.

Regards.
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Canek Peláez Valdés
Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México