Re: Wiki page correction: GRUB2

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On Thu, 2019-05-30 at 10:29 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 9:26 AM Adam Williamson
> <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > My suggested change for this section:
> > > 
> > > Install the bootloader files
> > > If you don't already have the relevant packages installed, do for
> > > Fedora 22 and later versions with DNF or with YUM for older Fedora
> > > releases:
> > > 
> > > - dnf install grub2-efi shim
> > > + dnf install grub2-efi-ia32 grub2-efi-x64
> > > - yum install grub2-efi shim
> > 
> > Uh. We *do* have users who don't use x86_64 arch...
> 
> Right. And the original command works there.
> 
> I think we have a packaging problem on x86_64. On a cleanly installed
> Fedora 31 Workstation, I have
> 
> shim-x64-15-8.x86_64
> shim-ia32-15-8.x86_64
> grub2-pc-2.02-84.fc31.x86_64
> grub2-efi-ia32-cdboot-2.02-84.fc31.x86_64
> grub2-tools-extra-2.02-84.fc31.x86_64
> grub2-tools-efi-2.02-84.fc31.x86_64
> grub2-tools-minimal-2.02-84.fc31.x86_64
> grub2-pc-modules-2.02-84.fc31.noarch
> grub2-tools-2.02-84.fc31.x86_64
> grub2-efi-x64-2.02-84.fc31.x86_64
> grub2-common-2.02-84.fc31.noarch
> grub2-efi-x64-cdboot-2.02-84.fc31.x86_64
> grub2-efi-ia32-2.02-84.fc31.x86_64
> 
> If I remove:
> shim-x64-15-8.x86_64
> shim-ia32-15-8.x86_64
> grub2-efi-x64-2.02-84.fc31.x86_64
> grub2-efi-x64-cdboot-2.02-84.fc31.x86_64
> grub2-efi-ia32-2.02-84.fc31.x86_64
> grub2-efi-ia32-cdboot-2.02-84.fc31.x86_64
> 
> And then:
> # dnf install grub2-efi shim
> 
> I get the following (edited for legibility)
> 
> Installing:
>  grub2-efi-ia32
>  shim-x64
> 
> That is obviously wrong, it could never work. On x86_64 the original
> command should install 32-bit and 64-bit shim and GRUB EFI binaries.

Well, it's sort of a problem, because both the packages provide 'grub2-
efi' and dnf's behaviour in this case is to pick one, not install both.

The only way to get both installed when you call 'dnf install grub2-
efi' would be to have some sort of dependency relationship between
them, I guess.
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