On Sun, Aug 12 2012, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >> I have been masking udev-181 so that I can continue to keep my current >> system with / and /usr separate partitions. >> >> This has required masking pciutils and usbutils as well. >> /etc/portage/package.mask/udev-181 contains >> >=sys-fs/udev-181 >> >=sys-apps/pciutils-3.1.9-r2 >> >=sys-apps/usbutils-005-r1 >> >> Now udisks-1.99.0-r1 wants to pull in a new package udev-init-scripts. >> I currently have udisks-1.98.0 which is fine. >> >> I added >> >=sys-fs/udisks-1.99.0 >> to package.mask/udev-181 and emerge --pretend --update world reports no >> conflicts. >> >> I was about to proceed when I looked at eix udisks and noticed that >> 1. "my" udisk -1.98.0 is no longer there >> 2. The 1-99.0-r1 is now in slot 2 and new 1.0.4-r[23] are in slot 0. >> I looked at -r3 and it wants >=udev-171-r5. Since I have -r6 my sys. >> should meet the requirement. >> >> So I wonder if my mask >=sys-fs/udisks-1.99.0 is a bad idea and I should >> instead be forcing/encouraging udisks-1.0.4-r3 (and, if so, how?). > > Not a bad idea per se, but you do realize that you cannoy keep masking > some stuff and upgrading the rest, right?
Right. > If you are happy with udisks 1.98, get the ebuild > /var/db/pkg/sys-fs/udisk-1.98.0 (if still there), and keep it in a > personal overlay. The same with all the stuff you need for not > upgrading udev. > > I believe (for reading your posts into the list) that you really don't > want an initramfs, or at least dracut. I would give it a try; I'm > pretty sure is easier than juggling package masks. You are certainly correct that this is a stopgap method. I am trying to order a new system from dell and when successful will definitely install / and /usr together on one partition and hence have the modern udev. Once I am comfortably on that new system I will re-install my three old systems to also have a combined / /usr. I just don't want to have my main system down. thanks, allan
