On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Ionuț Bîru <ibiru@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 02/22/2011 08:43 PM, Dan McGee wrote:
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Ionuț Bîru<ibiru@archlinux.org> wrote:
Hi,
The util-linux-ng project has been renamed back to util-linux.
Huge -1 on this one.
I just hosed my system during an upgrade, trimmed log below. The explanation- when we do replaces in pacman, we do all of the removes upfront. This is by no means ideal, we should fix this, but it isn't happening tomorrow. So during this upgrade where both the kernel and util-linux are being installed, we have a period of time where the util-linux utilities are not on the system, we try to generate our initrd, and then we fail to locate the blkid binary. I didn't even see this until I rebooted and got dropped to a shell; thankfully the rootfstype parameter exists.
I can guarantee we get bug reports if we let this situation make its way to core; I'm not sure what the solution is but this definitely doesn't work as is.
as a temporally solution, i think we should bump dependency for mkinitcpio to util-linux>=2.19 and to kernel26/lts to mkinitcpio>=fixed ?
Taking tpowa's answer into account too, I think Ionuț's proposed solution is the more "proper", especially since mkinitcpio has a dependency on util-linux(-ng) already. -Dan