At Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:44:31 -0600 Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote:
>> I am getting a blockage involving device mapper
>>
>> [ebuild U ] sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.9 [1.41.3-r1] USE="nls" 485 kB
>> [0]
>> [blocks B ] <sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41.8 ("<sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41.8" is
>> blocking sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.9, sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.1)
>> [blocks B ] <sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.8
>> ("<sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.8" is blocking sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.1)
>> [blocks B ] sys-fs/device-mapper ("sys-fs/device-mapper" is blocking
>> sys-fs/udev-146-r1)
>>
>> I looked on bgo and found posts today involving this. They were
>> "resolved" by noting "device-mapper was merged upstream into lvm2.
>> Emerge a recent lvm2, it will automatically
>> unmerge old device-mapper."
>>
>> I am not running lvm2 on this machine. I have device mapper because
>>
>> sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.6-r2 pulled in by:
>> sys-apps/hal-0.5.12_rc1-r8
>>
>> sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.24-r1 pulled in by:
>> sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.6-r2
>>
>> Does this mean I should emerge lvm2 even though this machine does not
>> use logical volumes?
>>
>> thanks,
>> allan
>
> The sys-fs/lvm2 package just contains utilities, it doesn't require
> you to actually use LVM2. I also use it the same way as you. I now
> have the lvm2 package and not device-mapper and everything still works
> with my encrypted partition.
Thank you. It worked fine.
allan
