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From: Wil Reichert <wil.reichert@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: grub fs support
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:06:28
Message-Id: 7a329d910901260906o48cd0908w5760bf08444b863e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Re: grub fs support by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
2 > Wil Reichert <wil.reichert@×××××.com> posted
3 > 7a329d910901252055i2c98e1eak6fc153000d25f45f@××××××××××.com, excerpted
4 > below, on Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:55:42 -0800:
5 >
6 >> Anyone know if grub-static-0.97-r9 supports ext4? There seem to be
7 >> patches floating around which add support, but I'm unable to tell if the
8 >> gentoo version has this or not.
9 >
10 > You've probably seen the saying:
11 >
12 > "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day.
13 > Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime."
14 >
15 > In that spirit...
16 >
17 > Documenting that sort of thing is what changelogs are for.
18 >
19 > Try this, making the path substitution appropriate for your system:
20 >
21 > head -20 $PORTDIR/sys-boot/grub-static/Changelog
22 >
23 > See what it says about the version you asked about? Guess where you look
24 > now.
25 >
26 > There's your answer. =:^)
27
28 The Changelog thing is useful thanks, but
29
30 void / # head -20 /usr/portage/sys-boot/grub-static/ChangeLog
31 # ChangeLog for sys-boot/grub-static
32 # Copyright 2000-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
33 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-boot/grub-static/ChangeLog,v
34 1.18 2009/01/11 21:04:00 maekke Exp $
35
36 11 Jan 2009; Markus Meier <maekke@g.o> grub-static-0.97-r6.ebuild:
37 amd64 stable, bug #254028
38
39 *grub-static-0.97-r9 (03 Jan 2009)
40
41 03 Jan 2009; Christoph Mende <angelos@g.o>
42 +grub-static-0.97-r9.ebuild:
43 Version bump to match sys-boot/grub
44
45 28 Oct 2008; Christoph Mende <angelos@g.o>
46 grub-static-0.97-r6.ebuild:
47 Added missing inherit eutils, bug 244706
48
49 *grub-static-0.97-r6 (27 Oct 2008)
50
51 27 Oct 2008; Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o>
52
53 doesn't answer my initial question =) Throwing my fishing pole back
54 into the water I noticed that neither the grub-static or grub
55 Changelogs reference ext4 so I'm going to suppose the answer to my
56 question is no.
57
58 Wil

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: grub fs support Saphirus Sage <saphirus497@×××××.com>
[gentoo-amd64] Re: grub fs support Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>