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On 12:39 Sun 07 Aug, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> All, |
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> I have spoken with floppym about this (he is the primary maintainer of |
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> grub2), and he told me to go for it if I want to take on the project, so |
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> I want some thoughts. |
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> Currently, grub2 defaults, with the multislot use flag on, to renaming |
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> things away from upstream -- for example, grub2-install vs grub-install. |
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> With the multislot use flag off, grub2 doesn't mess with the binary |
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> names; it leaves them the way upstream names them. |
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> I feel that new installs don't need multislot since they won't be |
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> migrating from grub legasy, so I want to turn the multislot flag off in |
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> the grub2 ebuilds. |
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> This would be done along with publishing a news item explaining that if |
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> you want to keep the multislot names, you should add |
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> "sys-boot/grub multislot" to /etc/portage/package.use. |
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> So, again, this would affect new installs, but users can stop it from |
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> happening on their systems if they want to do so. |
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> Thoughts? |
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> William |
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> |
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Could you please do |
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$ cd ~/<gentoo-repo>.git |
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$ git grep grub2- |
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_BEFORE_ introducing changes? I can confirm that at least winusb is |
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broken for good in stable Gentoo. |
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