Question about LVM on Debian

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 16:05 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:05:09AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > I'm thinking of trying LVM on one of my Etch machines and I look for
> > packages in the Etch repository. I see clvm, lvm-common, lvm2, and the
> > virtual package, lvm-binaries. Looks easy, but the text description
> > for lvm-common contains the following:
> >
> > ... You need to install in addition one of lvm5, lvm6, or
> > lvm10.
> >
> >
> > There are no such packages in the repository. I suppose lvm2 is the
> > successor to all these packages, and the description is simply out
> > of date, but I'd like confirmation before I do something the might
> > turn out to be a big mistake.
> >
> $ COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l |grep -i lvm
> ii lvm-common 1.5.20 The Logical Volume Manager for Linux (common files)
> ii lvm2 2.02.06-4 The Linux Logical Volume Manager
>
> Everything works like a charm here. If you install lvm2, it will pull
> in lvm-common as a dependency.

If you upgrade to SID, lvm-common conflicts with lvm2. From what I
understand, this is intentional as lvm1(any version) is to be dropped.
Though lvm2 can deal with lvm1 stuff, I believe it want so update the
meta to v2.
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