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Re: Bug#915880: lvm2: Dependency on liblz4-1 causes /sbin binaries to depend on /usr/lib libraries



On Wed, 2018-12-12 at 07:09 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-12-12 at 09:04 +0200, Per Lundberg wrote:
> > Let's leave this closed for now; I might come back later but I'd need
> > to investigate this more on a clean Ubuntu 18.04 install and
> > potentially open an issue with them. Given the usrmerge coming up, the
> > difference between depending on /lib and /usr/lib might be irrelevant
> > shortly, as far as Debian is concerned.
> 
> Remember that usrmerge is going to move stuff from /sbin to /usr/sbin
> etc not vice versa, so without /usr mounted from the initramfs you
> won't find /sbin/lvm at all i.e. the issue is more pronounced with
> usrmerge, not less.
> 
> BTW the initramfs's generated by the tools in Debian have been
> usrmerged for a long time, and it should be those copies of LVM and its
> dependencies which are being used anyway.

initramfs-tools has generated usr-merged filesystems since 0.132, but
that was only uploaded in July and hasn't made it into Ubuntu yet.

But it has been mounting /usr where necessary since Debian 8 "jessie"
and Ubuntu 15.10 (I think).

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If more than one person is responsible for a bug, no one is at fault.


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