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From: "Ragnar Kjørstad" <lvm@ragnark.vestdata.no>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Cc: Tamas Gergely <dice@mfa.kfki.hu>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Debian packaging
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 03:00:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001217030021.A29319@vestdata.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00121417221738.00826@lyta>; from Russell Coker on Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:22:17PM +0100

On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:22:17PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> I was thinking that perhaps what I should do is have /sbin/lvm-ver and 
> /lib/lvm-ver directories where "ver" is the version of LVM in question.  Then 
> at boot time there is a script that determines the version of LVM in the 
> kernel and creates sym-links from /sbin and /lib to the correct directories.  
> This is REALLY ugly, but it enables a user to cleanly have a machine that can 
> be booted on 2.2 or 2.4 kernel and just work each time you boot it.
> 
> Any better suggestions?

What about putting shell-scripts in /sbin, and have theese scripts
execute the real programs?

It adds a little more overhead to all lvm-commands, but you avoid the
need for setting anything up at boot-time.


-- 
Ragnar Kj�rstad

  reply	other threads:[~2000-12-17  2:00 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 [this message]
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
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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