From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nnd6m-0007rF-5K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:22:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D90AE0DE9; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 19:22:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f211.google.com (mail-bw0-f211.google.com [209.85.218.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8AC5E0DE9 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 19:22:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz3 with SMTP id 3so638098bwz.29 for ; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:22:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=nyLi/0dTzcBsYI0hr/OWs6DefRbofxLARZ/fxkOmAWg=; b=dFrdXALnt3bmY7ldyjBKkTsKHUnOGdvadQuZCdpbAee9KNPIps77wom6wOUxZU26ND GRuREU5ZsOeB6txWAobeoNR873bA0g6SUn4vV0TFjpswdLkU6VHBE0yrOxl3twTlHi+G BG9FFemaN56GJ5wkGjmVGVDCCZl5WxmPq4dW0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=InfIIFHLISOhXlEug8nm8v4W8CuvL6XlU5m2yVYivilSK/cwpKbzY2iAsgvMoYcvMv ewkhWNF+tdPKPAJgl6ZavcGJqnP5yB+Ye2h8wf707dVCOTlnAiVRZOHOsl6A6q9+MHzg Of2iZKwKGuLMlTa56sujxK5DG8VUzXHAY6VOQ= Received: by 10.204.5.145 with SMTP id 17mr492749bkv.40.1267816957348; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:22:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-238-8.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.238.8]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l1sm2274393bkl.14.2010.03.05.11.22.35 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:22:35 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Update Issues - what order should things be done? Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 21:20:01 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.1 (Linux/2.6.32-zen6; KDE/4.4.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <4B9156ED.1050407@libertytrek.org> In-Reply-To: <4B9156ED.1050407@libertytrek.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201003052120.01622.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 86ffd309-258c-4a8e-b829-6b58d7b33cd6 X-Archives-Hash: 91d81bb6e72a5025357f69bc11e72d8a 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