Bug#497110: boot loader installation failed when dmraid=true
Luk Claes <luk@debian.org> writes:
> Frans Pop wrote:
>> On Saturday 06 September 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>> I've done a look on dmraid and it looks simple to change. The attached
>>> patch should do that.
>>
>> Oh, wow! Yes!
>>
>> Let's make a change that's really dmraid upstream's business in Debian
>> only. Let's do it at this stage of the release cycle, *and* let's do it
>> without giving *any* thought to issues it might cause for existing dmraid
>> users who upgrade from Etch to Lenny.
>>
>> Not to mention that this would require also updating partman-dmraid,
>> grub-installer and maybe hw-detect.
>>
>> Sounds like an excellent plan Otavio, really.
>>
>> The fact is that parted changed, and apparently did so without any
>> coordination with dmraid developers (and I also wonder about other
>> devicemapper usages).
>> Even if it's theoretically an improvement, such uncoordinated changes are
>> called "regressions" as they tend to break existing software/systems.
>
> Frans: this sounds like you have a way better plan, so please speak up!
That message looks to be the "Frans mode" to say: "I believe we should
avoid this change at this release stage and try to revert parted
change, leaving the dmraid change for post lenny".
Here goes the on topic context now:
We have two possible way to fix that. Change parted to use previous
behaviour (I can do that and propose the patches for testing) or fix
dmraid, grub-installer, partman-dmraid and maybe hw-detect. The first
is safer but will put another upgrade task for lenny+1 since the
partition names will change again.
.oO( From etch to lenny, admins needs to handle the /dev/hdX to
/dev/sdX change and others... )
>From an admin POV, I'd much prefer to have the partition change on
this release then another in next release; from release management POV
the parted change is much safer and I think we could take this one
but this need to be decided by RT not me.
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