[arch-general] New GRUB2 packages - any comments ?

[Kirill Churin]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:40 AM, KESHAV P.R. <skodabenz at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 17:58, Kirill Churin <reflexing at reflexing.ru>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:55 PM, KESHAV P.R. <skodabenz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>         I (skodabenz) and Ronald Van Haren (pressh) have put together
> >> a split PKGBUILD for grub2 including UEFI support (apart from standard
> >> BIOS firmware).
> >>
> >> The first PKGBUILD (all links at the end of this post) builds
> >> grub2-common which contains the utilities common for all the
> >> platforms/firmware, grub2-bios containing grub2 bios firmware specific
> >> modules and grub2-efi-i386 containing grub2 i386 (32-bit) UEFI
> >> firmware specific modules.
> >>
> >> The second PKGBUILD builds grub2-efi-x86_64 containing grub2 x86_64
> >> (64-bit) UEFI firmware specific modules. This is in a separate
> >> PKGBUILD as grub2-efi-x86_64 requires an x86_64 build system to
> >> compile.
> >>
> >> The firmware specific packages are dependent on the firmware but
> >> independent of linux kernel arch. Therefore they are built as any. If
> >> the present problem in the website regarding mixing arch and any
> >> packages in a single PKGBUILD is resolved, the PKGBUILDs will be used
> >> unmodified.
> >>
> >> The current grub2 1.98 package will be replaced by grub2-common and
> >> grub2-bios 1.99~rc1 . The packages also include modules from
> >> grub-extras project (part of upstream but maintained in a separate
> >> repo due to legal issues) like lua parser, gPXE modules etc. BTRFS
> >> support exists in grub2's experimental bzr branch but the 1.99~rc1
> >> released tarball ( release info at
> >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2011-01/msg00082.html )
> >> does not include btrfs support. However ZFS support is included. For a
> >> full Change Log for 1.99 release please go to
> >> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/grub/grub2-bzr/view/3072/NEWS
> >> .
> >>
> >> For those who are using the skodabenz-arch-grub2 repo, please remove
> >> it from pacman.conf (repo will not be maintained) and update your
> >> grub2 packages with the below ones (pkgver and pkgrel not updated). As
> >> usual these packages conflict with both the old grub (grub-legacy) and
> >> grub2 1.98 package. Comments are welcome.
> >>
> >> Regards.
> >>
> >> Keshav
> >>
> >> PS: Due to text folding the hyperlinks may not work. In that case
> >> copy-paste the links in your browser to download the packages.
> >>
> >> LINKS :-
> >>
> >> PKGBUILDs (mostly finished - waiting for comments) -
> >>
> >>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9710721/grub2_sources/grub2-1.99~rc1-1.src.tar.gz
> >>
> >>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9710721/grub2_sources/grub2-efi-x86_64-1.99~rc1-1.src.tar.gz
> >>
> >> Compiled packages (x86_64 and 'any' only - sorry no i686) -
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9710721/skodabenz-arch-grub2/grub2-common-1.99~rc1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9710721/skodabenz-arch-grub2/grub2-bios-1.99~rc1-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
> >>
> >>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9710721/skodabenz-arch-grub2/grub2-efi-i386-1.99~rc1-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
> >>
> >>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9710721/skodabenz-arch-grub2/grub2-efi-x86_64-1.99~rc1-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
> >>
> >> Shell script used to create the tarball snapshots of grub-extras
> >> modules (defined in source array) -
> >>
> >> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9710721/grub2_sources/grub2_bzr_export.sh
> >>
> >
> > Will this packages be added to [extra]?
> >
> > --
> > Kirill Churin
> > Jabber: reflexing at reflexing.ru, ICQ: 8163230, Skype on demand.
> >
>
> Packages are in testing repo.
>
> - Keshav
>


Installed and booted fine. One question — where to get those archlinux.tga,
mentioned in wiki? =)

-- 
Kirill Churin
Jabber: reflexing at reflexing.ru, ICQ: 8163230, Skype on demand.