[arch-dev-public] grub/grub2 final

Ionut Biru ibiru at archlinux.org
Sun Jun 24 16:54:07 EDT 2012


On 06/24/2012 11:37 PM, Ronald van Haren wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Ionut Biru <ibiru at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> On 06/24/2012 11:10 PM, Ronald van Haren wrote:
>>
>>>>> I'd like to move 2.00 to [core] via [testing] when it is released,
>>>>> letting the grub-bios (atm grub2-bios) replace the old grub package.
>>>>> Adding an install message and a news item is probably a good idea at
>>>>> the time.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Do not replace grub. Most users won't read the pacman output and the
>>>> configuration syntax was changed, resulting in a non booting system.
>>>>
>>>> Let them move to grub-bios.
>>>>
>>
>>> Well sure, but grub-bios will be part of the grub group. Won't it
>>> automatically replace the grub package with the group in that case?
>>>
>>> Ronald
>>>
>>
>> I don't believe that pacman replaces a package with a group. Do we
>> really need a group called grub? What's the use case for that?
>>
>> --
>> Ionuț
>>
>>
>>
> 
> sorry I meant pkgbase
> 
> Ronald
> 

it's fine to have pkgbase=grub.

-- 
Ionuț



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