[arch-releng] Dep cycles in core and 2009.01

[Gerhard Brauer]

Am Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:16:57 -0200
schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar>:
> Ooohh! The grub-gfx installed at root-image-fs (x86_64) is the
> grub-gfx-0.97-7 (latest from community) and in i686 is 0.97-11.
> I tested compiling the grub-gfx for x86_84 sync to -11 version. copied
> with scp to installCD , pacman -U grub-gfx-0.97-11-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

Oh, then the grub-gfx maintainer doesn't build also the x86_64
version :-(
I wrote him in a bugreport FS#12616 to add ext4 support (and ext3
big-inode patch) to grub-gfx and the i686 version was rebuild fine with
these changes.

> And install grub like /arch/setup and now WORKS :)

FS#13059 is the new grub-gfx bugreport to fix for x86_64. Thanks
Gerardo!

> BTW: grub-gfx in ABS lack some patches, i copied all from ABS grub.

Yeah, i also saw this..

First i wonder about the grub-gfx problems you mentioned, cause
grub-gfx and grub uses the same patches (and upstream source), only
addition is the patch for splash support. And this should not prevent
the bare installation of grub(-gfx). But with this version-differing
the reason is clear.
x86_64 ISO/images (RC1 candidates) should wait until grub-gfx's new
version is available.

Gerhard