On Friday 05 March 2010 21:09:33 Tanstaafl wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a concern with some updates that I need to get done. I'm sorry > to say I put a few things off a bit too long, and now I'm uncertain as > to what I should do first, or if it even matters. > > Here are the issues: > > 1. I'm on an older kernel (gentoo-sources, 2.6.23-r9) > > For reasons I won't go into now, the boss would rather wait on updating > this, but he said if we have to, we have to... > > 2. I've currently got the lvm2 update blocker problem due to the > device-mapper being merged into lvm2. I know how to fix this (according > to the bug I found): > > emerge -C device-mapper && emerge -vuDN lvm2 > > (/ is not on lvm2, but /usr and /var are) > > but... > > 3. For some reason mysql wants to be rebuilt, and when I tried, it > failed saying that it now requires gcc-4.3.4... > > I had already installed gcc-4.3.4 a while back, but still haven't > switched to it, so currently everything is compiled with 4.1.2.
Then switch to 4.3.4 > So, what should I do first? Will the new version of lvm2 work ok with > the older kernel? Dunno, what does the ebuild say? > If so I could switch to gcc-4.3.4, fix/update lvm2, > then rebuild world, then update the kernel later once the boss is ok > with it? Just update the kernel and be done with it. This is the thing to do first and you already know that. So just do it. > Also - when you switch compilers, do you need to reboot right away > (after rebuilding world (and thus the kernel)? What does rebooting have to do with the compiler? The compiler only builds code then stops. Rebooting does nothing to it. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
