[arch-releng] grub-gfx - Was: Dep cycles in core and 2009.01

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

Allan McRae wrote:
> Gerhard Brauer wrote:
>> Am Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:23:34 +1000
>> schrieb Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>:
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>>> Would it be a good idea to move grub-gfx to [extra] if it is being
>>> used on the installer?
>>>     
>>
>> Hmm, abstain...
>> First i wonder that we use a community package on/for installation
>> sources, but it's only the grub-gfx package. So i have no problem
>> belong this to community at all. (I also thought about maintaining a
>> separate grub-gfx only for archiso...).
>> I see the problem mainly on our testing procedure: this behavior must
>> have be detected earlier - and not from a "beta tester"(Thanks
>> Gerardo!), WE have had to detect this....
>> (I detect it on i686 and initiate that this got fixed. Myself (only
>> i686) don't look if x86_64 was rebuild also....
>>   
>
> Can someone clarify what package the grub being installed onto the
> users system is?   From the problems here, I am getting the impression
> that it is the grub-gfx package.
>
> Allan
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Hi

In resume:
* The package installed at:
   the root-fs of ISO is grub-gfx.
   the root of new user system $DESTDIR is grub, but...
   the MBR/BOOT of the new system is grub-gfx because
$DESTDIR/sbin/grub-install (script) uses /sbin/grub (bin) and not
$DESTDIR/sbin/grub (bin)

* Under x86_64 grub-gfx fails in ext2/3/4 FS since don't have latest
patches that the i686 version have.

May be, a chroot to $DESTDIR and install grub from here with
grub-install, or use the old method from 2008.06 that uses grub binary
directly.
Or another solution.

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