On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? It will only pick up the replacement package if the package has a provides line as well. Peter -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
