On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 01:47:02PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: > Package: src:multipath-tools > Version: 0.5.0-1 > Tags: patch > > Two years ago we made some changes to dmraid and multipath-tools in > Ubuntu and I'd like to get them merged upstream. The changes > involve having dmraid disable its internal partition detection code, > and rely instead on kpartx to activate partitions, since it > understands gpt, but dmraid does not. In the process of this, I > noticed that there was a multipath-tools-boot package that you could > use if you require the ability to boot from multipath, but there was > no similar package for kpartx. The attached patch creates a > kpartx-boot and similar udeb packages so that those needing to boot > from dmraid can install just kpartx without pulling in > multipath-tools along with it.
Do we really need a kpartx-boot for that? Wouldn't it be sufficient to split out kpartx and let the initramfs hooks of dmraid and mp handle the rest? I don't think there's a usecase yet where one wants kpartx in the initramfs but neither mp nor dmraid. Cheers -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org