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On Monday 25 June 2012 00:15:59 Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> An official release of grub-2.00 should be coming pretty soon. I would |
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> like to keyword this for ~amd64 and ~x86 shortly after it hits the tree. |
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> I don't do much work on base system packages, so I would like some |
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> advice on how to make this as smooth as possible. |
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> My main concern is that many people probably have sys-boot/grub in |
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> @world. If grub:2 is made visible, portage will install it, and will |
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> remove grub-0.97 on the next depclean. This could be a little confusing, |
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> but should not cause any immediate damage since the copy of grub-0.97 |
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> installed in the MBR and /boot would remain intact. |
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> Is this worthy of a news item? Or I just blog about it? |
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> Anything else I need to think about here? |
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do we have automatic migration/updating in place like with grub1 ? that was |
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the biggest reason i didn't unleash it for automatic installing on people's |
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systems. |
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-mike |
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