Bug#603710: root and swap devices on lvm do not correctly show up in udev (missing symlinks)

[Michael Biebl]

On 24.12.2010 00:57, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Dec 24, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> 
>> I don't know.  You say there's a RC bug in our lvm package, so you could
>> provide a patch or NMU, or at least give some details about this since
>> you seem to know what this is about and there's no details in the bug
>> log...
> This is what the upstream maintainer had to say on the matter:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=590665#20
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=593625#25
> 
> I had to revert the change discussed in #593625 because the LVM rules
> have not been updated.
> 
> I do not know lvm enough to provide a reasonably safe patch.
> 

The latest lvm2 upstream version is 2.07.79.

I've updated to that version, and the symlinks were still missing in the udev
db. I then dropped the custom udev rules shipped by the debian package and used
the pristine upstream ones, and the symlinks were correctly set.

As a last test, I tried the same for 2.02.66: Install the pristine upstream udev
rules instead of the Debian ones. That did not help for 2.02.66.

So I guess it is both: the Debian lvm2 package being too old (*) and the udev
rules not up-to-date.

Regarding the latter, I'm wondering why the Debian package ships custom udev
rules at all. Given waldi's comment, that he doesn't really know about the udev
integration, shipping the upstream rules files looks like the better option to
me. I quickly looked over the upstream rules files and they seem pretty sane at
a cursory glance.


Given that Julien already tagged the bug can-defer, let's hope it get's fixed
soon when wheezy development opens and new upstream releases are allowed again.


Cheers,
Michael

(*) If upstream would have provided a git repo I probably would have tried a git
bisect.
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