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On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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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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There is already an elog message referring users to the wiki: |
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http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start |