lvm is needed by (installed) mkinitrd-3.5.14-1

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 18 04:12:28 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 23:05, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jim Popovitch (jimpop at yahoo.com) said: 
> > Why does mkinitrd require that I keep lvm?  
> 
> There's no real way to express in an rpm requirement whether
> or not your root FS requires LVM.

Rather than including lvm and other fs drivers/binaries with each
mkinitrd install, why not let mkinitrd deal with the necessary logic to
determine if appropriate fs tools are installed.  Does mkinitrd also
depend on vfs, xfs, reiserfs, and other fs types, not to mention scsi,
raid, etc, etc. 

> Bill
> 





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