Bug#687761: pu: package lvm2/2.02.66-5+squeeze1

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2013-02-15 19:04, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 21:04 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>> After reading all the related bug reports again, it looks like lvm2 is
>> actually intended to work well even without udev running and this has
>> been implemented in wheezy via fixing the init script dependencies. So
>> let us backport this change to squeeze.
>>
>> Unfortunately I don't know how to actually test that lvm2 works in a
>> udev-free squeeze. But the installation problems are gone with this
>> change.
> 
> That's certainly a good start. At least some hint that it actually works
> would be good though; maybe the maintainers (CCed) have some input here?

Maybe we can revisit this for the next oldstable update.
There was no feedback from the maintainers, but Pierre Ynard (the
reporter of #543163) confirmed (see #687761) that he once had a working
squeeze setup with lvm2 and no udev by removing the initscript
dependency. (He is tracking unstable nowadays and needs/needed some more
changes for getting modules loaded, but that's the price for not using
udev - and seems to be due to his special hardware setup.)

This change to the initscript won't change anything for existing squeeze
installations - either they already have lvm2 + udev installed or
manually changed the conffiles to allow lvm2 without udev.
But it would simplify my work running (sometimes weird :-) upgrade tests
to find "interesting" corner cases - lvm2 has a large rdep tree
requiring a lot of workarounds ...


Andreas