On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:59:00PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > initrd-tools 0.1.76 changed to abort on install to LVM if dmsetup was > not installed. I think this was a mistake. I'm ccing tbm, who made the > change.
I made the change. > This was apparently added as part of a patch to support encrypted root > filesystems, which is not supported by d-i at all; silently adding a > requirement that dmsetup be installed for lvm systems when previously it > was not needed is not a good thing to have done. Why is the d-i seeing the new initrd-tools at all? I thought base was frozen? > It seems to me that the above code could easily be rewritten to skip > calling dmsetup if it was not installed, and run the lvm function. This > might be a little less robust on systems that do use encrypted root > filesystems, but at least it wouldn't require us to make last-minute changes > to d-i and debian-cd to add dmsetup everywhere. At any rate, I agree with your solution, if there is no dmsetup it makes sense to fall back to using lvm. Since cryptsetup depends on dmsetup, there is nothing wrong with this solution. -- Wesley W. Terpstra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
