From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: lewis@sistina.com Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:30:22 -0600 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Debian packaging Message-ID: <20001220163022.A5042@sistina.com> References: <0012210853290U.08762@lyta> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0012210853290U.08762@lyta>; from bofh@coker.com.au on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 08:53:29AM +1100 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: To: linux-lvm@sistina.com --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 08:53:29AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > > Think PATH - this is really easy, and shells already support it. No = more > > > work to be done, and it's not ugly. The IOP version will probably ne= ver > > > change within a boot (unless LVM is a module and it gets upgraded wit= hout > > > upgrading the kernel - unlikely). > > > > Shouldnt the debian alternatives mechanism (see "man 8 > > update-alternatives") be most appropriate for this task? >=20 > Update-alternatives doesn't work when the file-system in question is moun= ted=20 > read-only. Also it's not really designed to be run at every boot. >=20 > PATH is a bad idea IMHO. It is set in too many places and has too many= =20 > possibilities to be stuffed up. Doesn't the liblvm.so versioning in the cvs code take care of this problem? --=20 AJ Lewis Sistina Software Inc. Voice: 612-379-3951 1313 5th St SE, Suite 111 Fax: 612-379-3952 Minneapolis, MN 55414 E-Mail: lewis@sistina.com http://www.sistina.com Current GPG fingerprint =3D 3B5F 6011 5216 76A5 2F6B 52A0 941E 1261 0029 2= 648 Get my key at: http://www.sistina.com/~lewis/gpgkey (Unfortunately, the PKS-type keyservers do not work with multiple sub-keys) -----Begin Obligatory Humorous Quote---------------------------------------- No-one suspects the butterfly! -----End Obligatory Humorous Quote------------------------------------------ --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6QTL+pE6/iGtdjLERAhayAJ9O4VyPOaorO0RLQhOWGgVxxgUOnACfXYQa +g0kSUB4iHN21iby90dyoew= =cE2F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO--