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