On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:27:41PM +0200, Giacomo Bagnoli wrote:
> What confuses me is the presence of sys-fs/clvm and sys-fs/lvm2 with
> clvm and cman use flags.
> I've installed sys-fs/lvm2-2.0.45, when trying to install clvm I get
> blockers (device-mapper and lvm2 itself).
> sys-fs/lvm2 clvm and  cman use flags are profile masked on amd64 (but
> not on x86), why?
> Should I need to downgrade lvm2 and install clvm or do it's safe to try
> out unmasking those use flags by overriding the profile (I'm using
> paludis and already have a custom profile that inherit from
> amd64/2008.0/server)? 
I've been trying to get clvm and lvm2 merged for years, but the
clustering team seldom responds to my inquires. 

The latest bug is here:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/265671

The differences between the two are very small at this point, because in
the previous work, I rebased clvm off the lvm2 ebuild that was then
current.

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