On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Ionut Biru <ibiru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/24/2012 10:51 PM, Ronald van Haren wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Tobias Powalowski >> <tobias.powalowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> HI >>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2012-06/msg00071.html >>> grub2 will hit final status soon, should packages be renamed then? >>> Any plan how to handle this. >>> Imho we move grub-legacy to aur or at least extra then. >>> >>> Thanks >>> greetings >>> tpowa >>> >>> -- >>> Tobias Powalowski >>> Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) >>> http://www.archlinux.org >>> tpowa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> >>> >> >> I was about to post a similar message... >> >> Anyway, I was planning to drop support of grub1. There has been no >> upstream for a long time and all newer features are patched in or >> require additional patches. I don't see a need to have it in [extra] >> as grub-legacy. No problem uploading it to AUR so people can continue >> to use it if they want, although you need i686 to build it so that >> could be the only reason to keep it in [extra] for a bit... >> >> I've seen no major breakages in grub2 since beta2 iirc. Upstream >> development has been going towards stability in recent betas and I >> would consider it stable at the moment: there were no real bug reports >> in the bugtracker for the last few months. >> >> I'd like to move 2.00 to [core] via [testing] when it is released, >> letting the grub-bios (atm grub2-bios) replace the old grub package. >> Adding an install message and a news item is probably a good idea at >> the time. >> > > Do not replace grub. Most users won't read the pacman output and the > configuration syntax was changed, resulting in a non booting system. > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Generate_GRUB2_BIOS_Config_file . You can convert menu.lst/grub.conf to grub.cfg using grub-menulst2cfg. But since grub1 files will be removed from /boot/grub, that may lead to non-bootable system, unless the user installs grub2 to the MBR using grub-install. > Let them move to grub-bios. > >> I'll be pushing grub2 rc1 to [testing] in a moment if you want to give >> it a try. Final 2.00 release should be in one of the next days. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronald >> > > > -- > Ionuț > > >
