[arch-releng] Removing GRUB from AIF

Pierre Schmitz pierre at archlinux.de
Fri Aug 3 02:15:22 EDT 2012


Am 02.08.2012 15:19, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:18:33 +0200
> Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> 
>> Am 28.07.2012 12:47, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
>> > On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 06:45:38 -0400
>> > Jeremiah Dodds <jeremiah.dodds at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> So I started poking around with the current state of AIF and archiso,
>> >> and it looks like the very first thing that needs to be done to AIF is
>> >> to remove its dependency on grub legacy, and update it for grub2 and/or
>> >> syslinux, which shouldn't be *too* hard...
>> >>
>> >> I can't handle removing the dependency on the package itself, but you
>> >> guys probably don't want me doing that anyhow at this point :P
>> >>
>> >
>> > actually aif supports syslinux.  it's probably just a matter of
>> > removing grub support.
>>
>> It seems we broke the aif package by remove grub from the repos. Are
>> you fine with dropping that package for now? What about libui-sh?
> 
> yes aif should be dropped to AUR, because upstream (me, for now. see
> next thread) is not keeping the software up to date enough.
> libui-sh is in good shape, but only aif depends on it (AFAIK), so it
> should probably also be dropped.

OK done. Both are still in the svn repo so they could be re-added
easily later.

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