Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: > 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.
Right, tbm only committed it.
> > 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?
a) People can install unstable using d-i and we want this to keep working.
b) We had to let the new initrd-tools into testing because it fixed
other RC bugs.
> > 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.
Great, so something like this? (Untested)
--- mkinitrd.orig 2005-01-20 16:15:03.000000000 -0500
+++ mkinitrd 2005-01-20 16:16:43.000000000 -0500
@@ -390,20 +390,19 @@
dm() {
local dmname
- if ! command -v dmsetup > /dev/null 2>&1; then
- echo Root is on a DM device, but dmsetup not installed >&2
- exit 1
- fi
+ if command -v dmsetup > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+ dmdev=$(printf "(%d, %d)" $major $minor)
- dmdev=$(printf "(%d, %d)" $major $minor)
-
- if ! dmsetup ls | grep -q "$dmdev\$"; then
- echo Unknown DM device $major:$minor >&2
- exit 1
+ if ! dmsetup ls | grep -q "$dmdev\$"; then
+ echo Unknown DM device $major:$minor >&2
+ exit 1
+ fi
+
+ dmname=$(dmsetup ls | grep "$dmdev\$" | sed
's/^\([^[:space:]]*\).*$/\1/')
fi
- dmname=$(dmsetup ls | grep "$dmdev\$" | sed
's/^\([^[:space:]]*\).*$/\1/')
- if dmsetup table $dmname | cut -d" " -f3 | grep -q ^crypt$ ; then
+ if [ -n "$dmname" ] && \
+ dmsetup table $dmname | cut -d" " -f3 | grep -q ^crypt$ ; then
dmcrypt
elif command -v lvmiopversion > /dev/null 2>&1; then
lvm
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