Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world

2009-11-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 10 November 2009 16:31:34 Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: Hi all! Sorry to bother you again : it was a long time! I've again one problem I'm not sure I can easily solve... Today, I did: emerge -upD --newuse world but I got an error: These are the packages that would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world

2009-11-10 Thread Dale
Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: Hi all! Sorry to bother you again : it was a long time! I've again one problem I'm not sure I can easily solve... Today, I did: emerge -upD --newuse world but I got an error: These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world

2009-11-10 Thread Massimiliano Ziccardi
That solved the problem. this was answered earlier today on this very list: Sorry, it has been my fault: I should have performed a deeper search. Thank you! Massimiliano. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 10 November 2009 16:31:34

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world

2009-11-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: I am running into the same thing. I'm updating everything else then going to tackle this. In theory, you have to unmerge device-mapper then let it update. Something like: emerge -C device-mapper emerge -uvDN world That's my plan at least. Unless someone else posts a

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world

2009-11-10 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: I am running into the same thing. I'm updating everything else then going to tackle this. In theory, you have to unmerge device-mapper then let it update. Something like: emerge -C device-mapper emerge -uvDN world That's my plan at least. Unless

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world

2009-11-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: I just unmerged device-mapper and updated lvm2 right after that. So in case of a crash or something during a longer world update I still have an intact system. I'm not sure if it would boot with the old lvm2 and without device-mapper, probably yes, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world

2009-11-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 10 November 2009 17:30:32 Dale wrote: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: I am running into the same thing. I'm updating everything else then going to tackle this. In theory, you have to unmerge device-mapper then let it update. Something like: emerge -C device-mapper

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world

2009-11-10 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: I just unmerged device-mapper and updated lvm2 right after that. So in case of a crash or something during a longer world update I still have an intact system. I'm not sure if it would boot with the old lvm2 and without

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world

2009-11-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 10 November 2009 20:14:33 Dale wrote: I'd just try to emerge lvm2 and see what happens. It's not a big package. Man, I use LVM on all of my systems, I really like it. Wonko I'm not even sure I need device-mapper. I may just uninstall all the stuff and reboot.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world

2009-11-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:39:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: You likely don;t need it then. device-mapper is only used by lvm and software- raid type packages. If you use those, you will know about it It's also used by cryptsetup. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 41: Good grief

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world

2009-11-10 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:39:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: You likely don;t need it then. device-mapper is only used by lvm and software- raid type packages. If you use those, you will know about it It's also used by cryptsetup. Yup, I'm not sure if I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world

2009-11-10 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:39:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: You likely don;t need it then. device-mapper is only used by lvm and software- raid type packages. If you use those, you will know about it It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world

2009-11-10 Thread John H. Moe
Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:39:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: You likely don;t need it then. device-mapper is only used by lvm and software- raid type packages. If you use those, you will know about it It's also used by cryptsetup.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world

2009-11-10 Thread Dale
Joshua Murphy wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:39:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: You likely don;t need it then. device-mapper is only used by lvm and software- raid type packages. If you