Ondřej Súkup wrote:

On 12 May 2016 at 16:28, Martin Pluskal wrote:

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On čtvrtek 12. května 2016 11:24:38 CEST Tomas Chvatal wrote:

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Hello everyone,

during update and split of lvm2 package we detected failure [1] in lilo to build because of broken br/r set on device-mapper.

Broken br/r set on device-mapper?

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Now the easy solution is to replace that device-mapper-32bit with the proper split-out library and be done with it. But I would like to figure out if we have still some people using the lilo now.

Yes.

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Installer does support only grub2 and lilo is quite archaic today.

Lilo is the only booter that is documented in the kernel documentation for booting.

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I would then propose to remove lilo from Factory instead of just fixing it and leaving be.

Sounds like it's the device mapper that's broken not lilo.

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I am in favor of removing it - TW is not museum, and there are alternatives, which unlike lilo are supported.

Why do you say lilo isn't supported. Last time I had a problem when disk sizes got too big for the old addressing scheme, I contacted the maintainer and they had a new version out in < a month. It also was the only scheme that worked with some file systems (xfs) when grub(2) was broken for over a year. Seems like supporting the kernel documented boot loader would be the proper community thing to do.

+1

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Cheers

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