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 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 y

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 u

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world

2009-11-10 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:08 PM, 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 a

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 s

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 signatu

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 > stuf

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 >>

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

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 y

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

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 po

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 wrote: > On Tuesday 10 November 2009 16:31:34 Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote:

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: > > Ca

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 tha