[arch-releng] Dep cycles in core and 2009.01

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:55:41 +0100
Gerhard Brauer <gerbra at archlinux.de> wrote:

> Am Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:40:25 +0100
> schrieb Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be>:
> 
> > On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:48:18 +0100
> > Gerhard Brauer <gerbra at archlinux.de> wrote:
> > > Sorry, forgot my mail... grub-install is a shell script which
> > > calls grub, and so /sbin/grub (ergo grub-gfx's grub).
> > 
> > Interesting.. would something like this be better?
> > chroot $DESTDIR /sbin/grub-install --recheck $ROOTDEV >/tmp/grub.log
> > 2>&1
> 
> Not without further testing ;-) It's one step to enter a chroot, but a
> other to step out again (AFAIK the installer script looks for SUCCESS
> or similar in /tmp/grub.log, and which /tmp is affected? The chroot'ed
> or the ISO-root?

If you mean the redirection stuff ( > /tmp/grub.log 2>&1), that goes to
the live one.  bash will execute the chroot command with it's
arguments, and redirect the output of it to /tmp/grub.log.

> These are things we should carefully research/fix for the next ISOs (>
> 2009.01) - either by complete (re)check archlinux-installer or on aif.
> 
> Currently i think the best way for 2009.01 would be to fix the
> grub-gfx package for x86_64.
> 
> > Dieter
> 
> Gerhard