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Arg, I figured it out right after posting this.  I specified my LVM root partition by two different paths, although both of them are valid.
 
In boot.conf I had /dev/mapper/vg1-rootfs
In fstab I had /dev/vg1/rootfs (which is a symbolic link to /dev/mapper/vg1-rootfs)
 
Once I made them the same, boot-update worked.
 
I realized two other mistakes I made, which I would like to point out. 
 
1)  In boot.conf I had this:
kernel kernel[-v] initrd initramfs-genkernel[-v] This does not work because [-v] is not a wildcard like I had thought.  It seems to be a variable which gets its value from the kernel line.  On my system the kernel is 'kernel-debian-sources-x86_64-4.4.6-1'.  So I think [-v] equals '-debian-sources-x86_64-4.4.6-1'.  Boot-update cannot find a match for my initrd line, which would be 'initramfs-genkernel-debian-sources-x86_64-4.4.6-1' -- that file does not exist.  I thought my initrd line would match to initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-4.4.6-1, but I was wrong about that.
 
The other mistake I made is that I do not need the genkernel initramfs at all.  The debian one works fine for an LVM root filesystem.
 
So my files now look like this, and my system is bootable.
 
/etc/boot.conf:
boot { generate grub default "Funtoo Linux genkernel lvm" timeout 3 } "Funtoo Linux genkernel lvm" { kernel kernel[-v] initrd initramfs[-v] params += dolvm real_root=/dev/vg1/rootfs rootfstype=ext4 resume=swap:/dev/mapper/vg1-swap /etc/fstab:
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/vg1/swap none swap sw 0 0 /dev/vg1/rootfs / ext4 noatime 0 1 boot-update configures grub.cfg with the following kernel and initrd:
kernel-debian-sources-x86_64-4.4.6-1 initramfs-debian-sources-x86_64-4.4.6-1 Sorry for the noise!

I tested debian-sources-4.5.2 successfully and updated the bug report. 
 
I'm also testing gentoo-sources, based on your and tmp-meteque's comments in http://forums.funtoo.org/topic/923-upgrading-debian-sources-requires-14-gb-in-vartmp
 
Thanks!

Cardinal, thanks for all the info. I still have a lot to learn.
 
For now, I have decided the easiest thing for me is to stick w/ debian-sources and do this:
 
mkdir /home/tmp
PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/home/tmp emerge -av debian-sources
 
It's currently compiling.

Cardinal, thanks for all the info. I still have a lot to learn.
 
For now, I have decided the easiest thing for me is to stick w/ debian-sources and do this:
 
mkdir /home/tmp
PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/home/tmp emerge -av debian-sources
 
It's currently compiling.

I spent quite a while figuring out how to get tab completion to work in sftp, so I figured I'd document it here.  I had to enable the libedit flag for openssh.  My /etc/portage/package.use file now contains this line:
 
>=net-misc/openssh-6.8_p1-r3 libedit
 
 

I spent quite a while figuring out how to get tab completion to work in sftp, so I figured I'd document it here.  I had to enable the libedit flag for openssh.  My /etc/portage/package.use file now contains this line:
 
>=net-misc/openssh-6.8_p1-r3 libedit
 
 

And this is what it looks like when you pile on way too much crap...
 

 

 

And this is what it looks like when you pile on way too much crap...