From: Russell Coker <bofh@coker.com.au>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com, Fionn Behrens <Fionn.Behrens@unix-ag.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Debian packaging
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 08:53:29 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0012210853290U.08762@lyta> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20001219212422.fionn@unix-ag.org>
> > 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 never
> > change within a boot (unless LVM is a module and it gets upgraded without
> > upgrading the kernel - unlikely).
>
> Shouldnt the debian alternatives mechanism (see "man 8
> update-alternatives") be most appropriate for this task?
Update-alternatives doesn't work when the file-system in question is mounted
read-only. Also it's not really designed to be run at every boot.
PATH is a bad idea IMHO. It is set in too many places and has too many
possibilities to be stuffed up.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-20 21:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-13 20:15 [linux-lvm] Debian packaging Russell Coker
2000-12-14 15:50 ` Tamas Gergely
2000-12-14 16:22 ` Russell Coker
2000-12-17 2:00 ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2000-12-17 10:49 ` Claudio Matsuoka
2000-12-17 9:47 ` Luca Berra
2000-12-17 18:00 ` Andreas Dilger
2000-12-18 1:00 ` Claudio Matsuoka
2000-12-19 20:24 ` Fionn Behrens
2000-12-19 22:51 ` Andreas Dilger
2000-12-20 8:43 ` Ulf Bartelt
2000-12-20 15:04 ` Claudio Matsuoka
2000-12-20 21:53 ` Russell Coker [this message]
2000-12-20 22:30 ` lewis
2000-12-20 23:15 ` Andreas Dilger
2000-12-14 17:43 ` HIBINO Kei
2000-12-15 17:58 ` Gergely Tamas
2000-12-15 22:10 ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2000-12-15 23:13 ` Jay Weber
2000-12-16 7:19 ` Gergely Tamas
2000-12-14 16:46 ` lewis
2000-12-15 6:51 ` Russell Coker
2000-12-15 18:15 ` lewis
2000-12-17 20:04 ` Tom Lees
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-12-20 15:18 Claudio Matsuoka
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