On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Ionuț Bîru <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/22/2011 08:43 PM, Dan McGee wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Ionuț Bîru<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> The util-linux-ng project has been renamed back to util-linux. >> >> Huge -1 on this one. >> >> I just hosed my system during an upgrade, trimmed log below. The >> explanation- when we do replaces in pacman, we do all of the removes >> upfront. This is by no means ideal, we should fix this, but it isn't >> happening tomorrow. So during this upgrade where both the kernel and >> util-linux are being installed, we have a period of time where the >> util-linux utilities are not on the system, we try to generate our >> initrd, and then we fail to locate the blkid binary. I didn't even see >> this until I rebooted and got dropped to a shell; thankfully the >> rootfstype parameter exists. >> >> I can guarantee we get bug reports if we let this situation make its >> way to core; I'm not sure what the solution is but this definitely >> doesn't work as is. >> > > as a temporally solution, i think we should bump dependency for mkinitcpio > to util-linux>=2.19 and to kernel26/lts to mkinitcpio>=fixed ?
Taking tpowa's answer into account too, I think Ionuț's proposed solution is the more "proper", especially since mkinitcpio has a dependency on util-linux(-ng) already. -Dan
