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On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:15:59 -0400 |
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Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> 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 |
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> tree. I don't do much work on base system packages, so I would like |
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> some 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 |
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> confusing, but should not cause any immediate damage since the copy |
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> of grub-0.97 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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> Note: The Gentoo Documentation Project has indicated that they do not |
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> want to add anything to the handbook until we are somewhat close to |
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> stabilizing grub:2. That's at least a couple months away. |
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I guess you could prepare some docs already, and put them e.g. |
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on the Wiki. Then it would be a really good idea to release a news item |
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and point users to those information and inform them about possible |
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choices. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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