package for distribution

package for distribution

[shirish]

 Hi all,
      I have been trying to see when GRUB2 is packaged so I could try
it, use it & understand all or any differences. I am running Ubuntu
Hardy Heron (unstable). AFAIK Ubuntu sources the GRUB2 package from
Debian Sid & the last packaging was done on 20071101-1
http://packages.debian.org/sid/grub2 . I was just wondering if
somebody knows of any discussion as to what kind of decisions are made
for packaging it and/or somehow to get a feed of whenever they package
it i.e. the latest.
      I know its nothing to do with GRUB2 development but I'm just
interested to see & know what you guys have been working hard at :)
Happy New Year.
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Re: package for distribution

[Pavel Roskin]

Hello!

Quoting shirish <shirishag75@gmail.com>:

>  Hi all,
>       I have been trying to see when GRUB2 is packaged so I could try
> it, use it & understand all or any differences. I am running Ubuntu
> Hardy Heron (unstable).

I think you make a wrong assumption here, that if GRUB2 is packaged,  
changing the bootloader will be easy and safe.  I really doubt that  
it's possible to make such package at this stage of GRUB2 development.  
  Whoever makes such package will be bombarded with questions and  
complaints about systems that don't boot.

In particular, the current code is known to be broken on PowerMac.

> AFAIK Ubuntu sources the GRUB2 package from
> Debian Sid & the last packaging was done on 20071101-1
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/grub2 . I was just wondering if
> somebody knows of any discussion as to what kind of decisions are made
> for packaging it and/or somehow to get a feed of whenever they package
> it i.e. the latest.

If you interested in packaging for Debian and Ubuntu, perhaps you  
should talk to the packagers.

>       I know its nothing to do with GRUB2 development but I'm just
> interested to see & know what you guys have been working hard at :)

You can see ChangeLog and the mailing list to learn about the development.

If you want to try GRUB2, I suggest that you install it from the  
sources.  But first make sure you can recover the system if things go  
wrong.  At very least, make sure you have rescue disks.

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Pavel Roskin

Re: package for distribution

[Robert Millan]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:22:18AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Quoting shirish <shirishag75@gmail.com>:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >      I have been trying to see when GRUB2 is packaged so I could try
> >it, use it & understand all or any differences. I am running Ubuntu
> >Hardy Heron (unstable).
> 
> I think you make a wrong assumption here, that if GRUB2 is packaged,  
> changing the bootloader will be easy and safe.  I really doubt that  
> it's possible to make such package at this stage of GRUB2 development.  
>  Whoever makes such package will be bombarded with questions and  
> complaints about systems that don't boot.
> 
> In particular, the current code is known to be broken on PowerMac.
> 
> >AFAIK Ubuntu sources the GRUB2 package from
> >Debian Sid & the last packaging was done on 20071101-1
> >http://packages.debian.org/sid/grub2 . I was just wondering if
> >somebody knows of any discussion as to what kind of decisions are made
> >for packaging it and/or somehow to get a feed of whenever they package
> >it i.e. the latest.
> 
> If you interested in packaging for Debian and Ubuntu, perhaps you  
> should talk to the packagers.

I do the packages for Debian Sid.  If you have questions about the
package provided at http://packages.debian.org/sid/grub2, feel free to
ask me directly or via Debian BTS.

I expect it should work on any flavour of Debian, including Ubuntu ones.

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