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On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 01:35:19 -0400 |
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Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 06/25/2012 12:15 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> > An official release of grub-2.00 should be coming pretty soon. I |
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> > would like to keyword this for ~amd64 and ~x86 shortly after it |
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> > hits the tree. I don't do much work on base system packages, so I |
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> > would like 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 |
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> > not want to add anything to the handbook until we are somewhat |
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> > close to stabilizing grub:2. That's at least a couple months away. |
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> I think it would be best to move sys-boot/grub:2 to sys-boot/grub2. |
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> That should avoid confusion. |
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If our plan is to replace grub1 with grub2 at some point, that seems |
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incorrect. In other words, if grub2 is 'natural progress' from grub1. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |