On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 01:35:19 -0400 Richard Yao <r...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 06/25/2012 12:15 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > An official release of grub-2.00 should be coming pretty soon. I > > would like to keyword this for ~amd64 and ~x86 shortly after it > > hits the tree. I don't do much work on base system packages, so I > > would like some advice on how to make this as smooth as possible. > > > > My main concern is that many people probably have sys-boot/grub in > > @world. If grub:2 is made visible, portage will install it, and will > > remove grub-0.97 on the next depclean. This could be a little > > confusing, but should not cause any immediate damage since the copy > > of grub-0.97 installed in the MBR and /boot would remain intact. > > > > Is this worthy of a news item? Or I just blog about it? > > > > Anything else I need to think about here? > > > > Note: The Gentoo Documentation Project has indicated that they do > > not want to add anything to the handbook until we are somewhat > > close to stabilizing grub:2. That's at least a couple months away. > > I think it would be best to move sys-boot/grub:2 to sys-boot/grub2. > That should avoid confusion. If our plan is to replace grub1 with grub2 at some point, that seems incorrect. In other words, if grub2 is 'natural progress' from grub1. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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