[arch-releng] Removing GRUB from AIF
So I started poking around with the current state of AIF and archiso, and it looks like the very first thing that needs to be done to AIF is to remove its dependency on grub legacy, and update it for grub2 and/or syslinux, which shouldn't be *too* hard...
I can't handle removing the dependency on the package itself, but you guys probably don't want me doing that anyhow at this point :P
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 06:45:38 -0400 Jeremiah Dodds jeremiah.dodds@gmail.com wrote:
So I started poking around with the current state of AIF and archiso, and it looks like the very first thing that needs to be done to AIF is to remove its dependency on grub legacy, and update it for grub2 and/or syslinux, which shouldn't be *too* hard...
I can't handle removing the dependency on the package itself, but you guys probably don't want me doing that anyhow at this point :P
actually aif supports syslinux. it's probably just a matter of removing grub support.
Am 28.07.2012 12:47, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 06:45:38 -0400 Jeremiah Dodds jeremiah.dodds@gmail.com wrote:
So I started poking around with the current state of AIF and archiso, and it looks like the very first thing that needs to be done to AIF is to remove its dependency on grub legacy, and update it for grub2 and/or syslinux, which shouldn't be *too* hard...
I can't handle removing the dependency on the package itself, but you guys probably don't want me doing that anyhow at this point :P
actually aif supports syslinux. it's probably just a matter of removing grub support.
It seems we broke the aif package by remove grub from the repos. Are you fine with dropping that package for now? What about libui-sh?
Greetings,
Pierre
Dieter Plaetinck dieter@plaetinck.be writes:
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 06:45:38 -0400 Jeremiah Dodds jeremiah.dodds@gmail.com wrote:
So I started poking around with the current state of AIF and archiso, and it looks like the very first thing that needs to be done to AIF is to remove its dependency on grub legacy, and update it for grub2 and/or syslinux, which shouldn't be *too* hard...
I can't handle removing the dependency on the package itself, but you guys probably don't want me doing that anyhow at this point :P
actually aif supports syslinux. it's probably just a matter of removing grub support.
Well, I think I've successfully removed grub support and made it so that 'aif -p automatic -c /usr/share/examples/generic-install-sda' runs successfully on the archlinux-2012.07.15 image.
I've sent you a pull request on github[1], if you'd like me to send a patch to the list or the bugtracker or wherever, let me know. If you'd like me to stop pestering you, let me know, ha.
I'm currently running into https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/30525 when trying to run the interactive profile, fixing that and then adding support for grub-bios and grub-efi seems like a good next step.
Footnotes: [1] https://github.com/Dieterbe/aif/pull/10
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:18:33 +0200 Pierre Schmitz pierre@archlinux.de wrote:
Am 28.07.2012 12:47, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 06:45:38 -0400 Jeremiah Dodds jeremiah.dodds@gmail.com wrote:
So I started poking around with the current state of AIF and archiso, and it looks like the very first thing that needs to be done to AIF is to remove its dependency on grub legacy, and update it for grub2 and/or syslinux, which shouldn't be *too* hard...
I can't handle removing the dependency on the package itself, but you guys probably don't want me doing that anyhow at this point :P
actually aif supports syslinux. it's probably just a matter of removing grub support.
It seems we broke the aif package by remove grub from the repos. Are you fine with dropping that package for now? What about libui-sh?
yes aif should be dropped to AUR, because upstream (me, for now. see next thread) is not keeping the software up to date enough. libui-sh is in good shape, but only aif depends on it (AFAIK), so it should probably also be dropped.
Am 02.08.2012 15:19, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:18:33 +0200 Pierre Schmitz pierre@archlinux.de wrote:
Am 28.07.2012 12:47, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 06:45:38 -0400 Jeremiah Dodds jeremiah.dodds@gmail.com wrote:
So I started poking around with the current state of AIF and archiso, and it looks like the very first thing that needs to be done to AIF is to remove its dependency on grub legacy, and update it for grub2 and/or syslinux, which shouldn't be *too* hard...
I can't handle removing the dependency on the package itself, but you guys probably don't want me doing that anyhow at this point :P
actually aif supports syslinux. it's probably just a matter of removing grub support.
It seems we broke the aif package by remove grub from the repos. Are you fine with dropping that package for now? What about libui-sh?
yes aif should be dropped to AUR, because upstream (me, for now. see next thread) is not keeping the software up to date enough. libui-sh is in good shape, but only aif depends on it (AFAIK), so it should probably also be dropped.
OK done. Both are still in the svn repo so they could be re-added easily later.
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Dieter Plaetinck
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Pierre Schmitz