On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 12:29 +0300, Kalev Lember wrote: > On 10/12/2011 04:17 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Hey, folks. There's a grub update in updates-testing atm (being pushed > > stable soon) which splits the EFI stuff off into a new grub-efi > > subpackage. If you have an EFI install of F16 you will need to have > > grub-efi installed or else your system won't boot any more. So, if you > > have an EFI install, install the grub-efi package! > > Turning Beta installs into unbootable bricks doesn't sound very good. If > installing grub-efi on upgrades is enough to make it work, this should > be easy to solve. > > I can think of two ways to convince yum to always install grub-efi on > upgrades: > a) have grub2 require grub-efi; or > b) have grub-efi obsolete grub. > > I would personally prefer (a), but (b) should also work. grub2 is > already obsoleting grub, and if grub-efi was made to _also_ obsolete > grub, then yum should install _both_ grub2 and grub-efi on upgrades. Yes - it's not that we necessarily intended to leave it that way, but I wanted to give people a heads-up as the problem exists _now_. I think b) sounds closer to our goal here, if it does actually work that way (I thought yum would just pick one of the obsoleting packages). Peter? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
