Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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 at least.  Unless someone else posts a better one.
>>     
>
> 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 yes, but I did not want to take any risk.
>
> Um, shouldn't the new portage have dealt auto-magically with this blocker?
>
> 	Wonko
>   

Here's something more interesting, I don't need or use lvm.  I was
trying to track it down with equery but I was getting drunk going in
circles.

I also assume that is why portage can't figure out a way to handle
this.  It got drunk too.  After a while a drunk just falls down.  lol

Thought about using the -et options with emerge to figure this out. 

Dale

:-)  :-)