James wrote: > Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes: > > >>> If I just unmerge grub and emerge grub-static, is that the >>> best way to prevent grub-2 from ever being installed? >>> Other caveats to worry about? > > OK, so before anyone responded, I just masked the relevant > versions of grub2 in package.mask. > > > =sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r7 > =sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r3 > =sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2 > >> emerge -n sys-boot/grub:0 and make sure no other grub entries appear in >> <at> world > > I added the generic grub2 to the package.mask > > sys-boot/grub:2 > > It's all good now. I'm ignoring grub-static. > grub-0.97.r14 seems fine. > > > thx (everyone), > James >
To be sure, I'd take the lowest version and put a >= in front. Based on what I get here, it should look like this in the mask file: >=sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2 That way you don't have to worry about the new version that may come later, and if the old grub gets removed from the tree. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-)