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

[Jim Popovitch]

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 01:15, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jim Popovitch (jimpop at yahoo.com) said: 
> > AHHH, but in order to be that far down the road, you would already have
> > booted your lvm root partition, thus negating the need to require lvm as
> > a dependency of mkinitrd.  So, since you seem to be defending the
> > practice, why again is lvm a dependency of mkinitrd?
> 
> Because, without it, you'll never get the initrd in the first place.
> 
> See the bug quoted in the other mail.
> 

Well, I think that comment #2 identifies the issue as the kernel install
process not accurately determining the components necessary to build
initrd.  I see the shortcut of just throwing lvm into the mix to 'make
it work', I just think that is not the best solution.  I would hope that
the kernel install process relies on more than just believing that the
lvm tools are available just because mkinitrd is installed.  Perhaps
not.

-Jim P.