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On 03/17/2012 05:11:23 AM, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: |
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> This item just appeared after eix-sync: |
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> HTPC ~ # eselect news read |
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> 2012-03-16-udev-181-unmasking |
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> Title udev-181 unmasking |
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> Author William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> |
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> Posted 2012-03-16 |
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> Revision 1 |
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> udev-181 is being unmasked on 2012-03-19. |
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> This news item is to inform you that once you upgrade to a version of |
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> udev >=181, if you have /usr on a separate partition, you must boot |
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> your |
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> system with an initramfs which pre-mounts /usr. |
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> An initramfs which does this is created by |
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> >=sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.25.1 or |
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> >=sys-kernel/dracut-017-r1. If you do not want to use these tools, be |
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> sure any initramfs you create pre-mounts /usr. |
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> Also, if you are using OpenRC, you must upgrade to >= openrc-0.9.9. |
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> For more information on why this has been done, see the following URL: |
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> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken |
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Hi, |
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has anybody followed the route shown in |
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http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Basic_initramfs_used_to_check_and_mount_/usr |
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Thanks for sharing your experience, |
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Helmut. |
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