I've finally got my system settled enough to look into teh scary udev upgrade.
Especially I have all data dirs off in their own LVM partitions (/home, /encfs,
/usr/portage, /var/spool), and a backup of the most recent bootable and runable
/, so I can boot back to that if I need to and still get email etc. while
working oout what I screwed up.
Excluding gcc, llvm, various app-emulation packages, videolibs, etc, most of it
looks innocent enough.
=sys-apps/coreutils-8.21
=sys-apps/dbus-1.6.10
=sys-apps/dmidecode-2.12
=sys-apps/gptfdisk-0.8.6
=sys-apps/hwids-20130329
=sys-apps/hwloc-1.6.2
=sys-apps/kmod-13
=sys-apps/pciutils-3.2.0
=sys-apps/portage-2.1.11.62
=sys-apps/sandbox-2.6-r1
=sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r4
=sys-apps/usbutils-006-r1
=sys-apps/util-linux-2.22.2
=sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.5_p20120320-r2
=sys-auth/pambase-20120417-r1
=sys-auth/polkit-0.110
=sys-block/nbd-3.3
=sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools-0.1.5-r1
=sys-cluster/openmpi-1.6.4
=sys-fs/ecryptfs-utils-103
=sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.98
=sys-fs/s3fs-1.67
=sys-fs/s3ql-1.14
=sys-fs/udev-202
=sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-26
=sys-fs/udisks-1.0.4-r5
=sys-fs/udisks-2.1.0:2
=sys-libs/glibc-2.17:2.2
=sys-libs/pam-1.1.6-r4
=sys-power/cpufrequtils-008-r2
=sys-power/cpupower-3.8-r1
=sys-power/powertop-2.3
=sys-power/upower-0.9.20-r2
=sys-process/lsof-4.87-r1
=virtual/udev-197-r3
Some give me pause:
=sys-apps/baselayout-2.2
Is baselayout 2.2 necessary for upgrading udev, or just optional? Could I
upgrade this without upgrading udev?
=sys-boot/grub-2.00-r3:2
I'm running grub 1. What I have seen of grub 2 doesn't impress me, and
besides, my bootable backup is on a different disk but relies on the grub 1
boot setup, and I'd just as soon not upgrade to grub 2 ever if possible.
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