From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JA0br-0004SF-9q for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:14:04 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JA0bp-0004Q5-Bx for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:14:01 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JA0bo-0004NI-7E for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:14:00 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JA0bo-0004N2-1w for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:14:00 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JA0bn-0005Sf-Ph for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:13:59 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JA0bk-0004Pu-R2; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:13:58 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JA0bM-0001A5-B1; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:13:32 +0100 Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 11:13:32 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080102101332.GA4295@thorin> References: <511f47f50801012020l6335235an9d42db865e987ac4@mail.gmail.com> <20080102002218.v3s9922n8k0800s8@webmail.spamcop.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080102002218.v3s9922n8k0800s8@webmail.spamcop.net> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: shirish Subject: Re: package for distribution X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:14:01 -0000 Hi, On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:22:18AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Hello! > > Quoting 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). > > 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. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)