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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:11:58
Message-Id: 200911101611.48772.wonko@wonkology.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world by Dale
1 Dale writes:
2
3 > I am running into the same thing. I'm updating everything else then
4 > going to tackle this. In theory, you have to unmerge device-mapper
5 > then let it update. Something like:
6 >
7 > emerge -C device-mapper && emerge -uvDN world
8 >
9 > That's my plan at least. Unless someone else posts a better one.
10
11 I just unmerged device-mapper and updated lvm2 right after that. So in
12 case of a crash or something during a longer world update I still have an
13 intact system. I'm not sure if it would boot with the old lvm2 and without
14 device-mapper, probably yes, but I did not want to take any risk.
15
16 Um, shouldn't the new portage have dealt auto-magically with this blocker?
17
18 Wonko

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>