On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 09:29:28AM -0800, John Reiser wrote: > > Yes, I think we're both trying to say the same thing: there's no point > > having 'grub' in the repositories as its not installable or usable in > > practise. The same goes for bunch of other obsoleted packages as well. > yum is not the only tool available. But it is the package manager for the distro. More importantly, it's not really about yum. *Any* package manager which respects what the packages say ("grub2 obsoletes grub") will do the same. > Using rpm: erase grub2 if it is present; install grub [grub1]. And then the next time you do a general package upgrade, presto, you've got grub2 again. This is a kludge, basically, akin to installing firefox-12.0-1 from the F17 release tree even though firefox-17.0 is F17 updates. > There are other tools, too. rpm2cpio comes to mind. Really??? And sure, you can build grub from source. But we're getting pretty far off from being actually _Fedora_. -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel