From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:31:33 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 15/28] grub2: remove package In-Reply-To: <41b9f835e983516f570512d44799a9b8c7cd0601.1309895466.git.thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Tue, 5 Jul 2011 21:54:06 +0200") References: <41b9f835e983516f570512d44799a9b8c7cd0601.1309895466.git.thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <87y606xnwq.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni 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