On 08/06/2011 06:09 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > so at this point i'm puzzled, because it's userspace-kernelspace > interaction and yet there's no recognition of this inter-dependency in > the debian package specs... > > so, we have an unusual situation in which the linux kernel appears to > require a dependency on a specific version of a userspace library for > booting a system (which the debian linux kernel maintainer quite > rightly objected to "fixing" by adding random dependencies for random > userspace libraries. as they said in Galaxy Quest, "ohhh. that's not > riiiight"...) > > so, with that as background, one debian user raised an interesting > question: has any _other_ gnu/linux distro encountered this issue, and > if so, how was it resolved? I don't think it is resolved anywhere (Redhat/Fedora kernel packages also have a very minimal set of user-space deps that do not include any of the LVM auxiliary programs. It's a nasty problem that would only really be solved by packaging kernel-modules (or least the ones with additional user-space dependencies) separately from the kernel core. But package maintainers are resistant to that because it makes for more management headaches... The RPMFusion/kmod packages for Fedora take this approach for various third-party modules (e.g. the linkage between the nvidia kernel module and the nvidia libGL userspace library; separate packages because the kernel module is tied to both a kernel version and a driver-release version, while the userspace library is tied only to a driver-release version). I'm sure if you trolled the fedora-devel list from a few years ago you'd find a big debate about this (there was at one time a question as to whether the kmod packaging system would be used for officially supported modules; they decided to not support kmod officially). Matt _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
