[arch-dev-public] grub/grub2 final

[Eric Bélanger]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Ionut Biru <ibiru at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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.

I'm not sure but I think that the devtools and/or dbscripts expects
PKGBUILDs to be in $pkgbase/trunk/ in the svn repo. If that is
correct, you can't have both a grub package and a grub pkgbase, unless
they are provided by the same PKGBUILD.

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> Ionuț
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