From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 15/28] grub2: remove package
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:31:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y606xnwq.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41b9f835e983516f570512d44799a9b8c7cd0601.1309895466.git.thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Tue, 5 Jul 2011 21:54:06 +0200")
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> writes:
Thomas> Grub 2 has been marked BROKEN in June 2010, and nobody cared to fix it
Thomas> since then.
Thomas> At that time, it was marked broken because the build process needed a
Thomas> Ruby interpreter available on the host, and it's really a pain that
Thomas> building a bootloader needs such a thing.
Thomas> I've tried to upgrade the package to Grub2 1.99-rcX, and now it does
Thomas> not need a Ruby interpreter anymore, but instead requires a tool
Thomas> called "autogen", which itself needs the Guile Scheme interpreter.
Thomas> Since we haven't heard any complaints about Grub2 being marked broken,
Thomas> and since it's such a pain to package, let's get rid of it. Of course,
Thomas> anybody interested in Grub2 is invited to contribute a working
Thomas> package.
Committed, thanks.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-10 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-05 19:53 [Buildroot] [pull request v3] Pull request for branch for-2011.08/bootloaders Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-05 19:53 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/28] Makefile.package.in: Makes it possible to override the default extract commands Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-07 21:00 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-07-05 19:53 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 02/28] Fix quoting in default extract command Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-07 21:05 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-07-05 19:53 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 03/28] linux: make it possible to install the kernel in /boot Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-07 19:08 ` Sven Neumann
2011-07-07 21:17 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-07-05 19:53 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 04/28] linux: use the defconfig mechanism after tuning the config Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-07 21:46 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-07-08 17:08 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-08 18:11 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-07-05 19:53 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 05/28] package: add infrastructure to install things in images/ Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-07 21:47 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-07-05 19:53 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 06/28] package: fix patching procedure for host packages Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-07 21:50 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-07-07 21:55 ` Yann E. MORIN
2011-07-07 21:59 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-07-05 19:53 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 07/28] barebox: re-indent variable definitions Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-10 8:57 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-07-10 10:25 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-10 12:00 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-07-05 19:53 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 08/28] barebox: convert to GENTARGETS Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-10 13:03 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-07-05 19:54 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 09/28] at91bootstrap: indent properly variable definitions Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-05 19:54 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 10/28] at91bootstrap: convert to GENTARGETS Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-10 13:10 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-07-05 19:54 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 11/28] at91dataflashboot: indent properly variable definitions Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-05 19:54 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 12/28] at91dataflashboot: convert to GENTARGETS Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-10 13:16 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-07-05 19:54 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 13/28] syslinux: " Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-10 13:27 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-07-05 19:54 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 14/28] grub: convert to AUTOTARGETS Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-10 13:30 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-08-20 9:22 ` Darius Augulis
2011-08-26 12:02 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-08-29 17:22 ` Darius Augulis
2011-07-05 19:54 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 15/28] grub2: remove package Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-10 13:31 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2011-07-05 19:54 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 16/28] u-boot: convert to GENTARGETS Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-10 20:07 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-07-05 19:54 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 17/28] uboot-mkimage: new package Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-10 20:10 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-07-05 19:54 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 18/28] linux: rename LINUX26 to LINUX Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-05 19:54 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 19/28] linux: indent and align some definitions Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-05 19:54 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 20/28] package: add support for post-download hooks Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-10 20:25 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-07-05 19:54 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 21/28] linux: convert to the GENTARGETS infrastructure Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-05 19:54 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 22/28] boot: rename BR2_TARGET_* to BR2_BOOT_* Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-10 20:27 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-07-10 21:27 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-05 19:54 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 23/28] u-boot: rename options BR2_BOOT_UBOOT* to BR2_BOOT_U_BOOT* Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-05 19:54 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 24/28] Improve TARGETS handling for bootloaders and kernel Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-05 19:54 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 25/28] linux: allow specification of a custom Git repository as a source Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-05 19:54 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 26/28] u-boot: allow specification of custom Git repo as source Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-05 19:54 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 27/28] Add x-loader bootloader Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-05 19:54 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 28/28] barebox: bump version Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-07 10:25 ` [Buildroot] [pull request v3] Pull request for branch for-2011.08/bootloaders Luca Ceresoli
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2011-07-04 21:33 [Buildroot] [pull request v2] " Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-04 21:33 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 15/28] grub2: remove package Thomas Petazzoni
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