Richard Yao posted on Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:10:31 -0400 as excerpted:
> On 06/29/2012 05:04 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Richard Yao wrote:
>>> On 06/29/2012 03:04 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Rich Freeman
wrote:
> On Fri, Ju
When everything else fails, read the instructions...
On 06/29/2012 05:04 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Richard Yao wrote:
>> On 06/29/2012 03:04 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Richard Yao wrote:
> GRUB2 does away with the conven
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Richard Yao wrote:
> On 06/29/2012 03:04 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Richard Yao wrote:
GRUB2 does away with the conventional stage files. It also wants a
special B
On 06/29/2012 03:04 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Richard Yao wrote:
>>> GRUB2 does away with the conventional stage files. It also wants a
>>> special BIOS Boot Partition in order to function. That is where it
>
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> 3. grub2-install calls grub2-bios-setup which installs boot.img into
>> the MBR and embeds core.img into the sectors immediately after the
>> MBR.
>
> Ok, that isn't all that unlike grub
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> 3. grub2-install calls grub2-bios-setup which installs boot.img into
> the MBR and embeds core.img into the sectors immediately after the
> MBR.
Ok, that isn't all that unlike grub1 - that is what stage1.5 is. It
just sounds like these aren'
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Richard Yao wrote:
>> GRUB2 does away with the conventional stage files. It also wants a
>> special BIOS Boot Partition in order to function. That is where it
>> stores the equivalent of the stage2 bootcode. T
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> It does copy all of the images to /boot so that the grub shell can be
>> used to install an MBR image. grub:2 no longer has an interactive
>> shell and grub2-install must be used. Theref
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Richard Yao wrote:
> GRUB2 does away with the conventional stage files. It also wants a
> special BIOS Boot Partition in order to function. That is where it
> stores the equivalent of the stage2 bootcode. That is similar to
> FreeBSD's bootloader.
Now, that should
On 06/29/2012 02:38 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> It does copy all of the images to /boot so that the grub shell can be
>> used to install an MBR image. grub:2 no longer has an interactive
>> shell and grub2-install must be used. Therefore, copyi
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> It does copy all of the images to /boot so that the grub shell can be
> used to install an MBR image. grub:2 no longer has an interactive
> shell and grub2-install must be used. Therefore, copying files to
> /boot in the ebuild is completely p
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> As far as I can tell, grub:0 only half-way updates itself; there is a
>> large ewarn telling the user that they must take action to install the
>> new version in the MBR. This seems a b
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> As far as I can tell, grub:0 only half-way updates itself; there is a
> large ewarn telling the user that they must take action to install the
> new version in the MBR. This seems a bit broken to me.
In what way. As far as I can tell I have
>
> Perhaps it would be best to tell users that if they'd like to see the
> possible choices they can run ie 'qdepends -r virtual/cron'
>
Quite, perhaps it could be a seperate mechanism, it would just seem
that for virtuals that just provide a list of alternatives, having a
seperate package that g
On 30 June 2012 00:13, Corentin Chary wrote:
> It's already the case:
> https://github.com/iksaif/euscan/blob/master/pym/euscan/handlers/cpan.py
> but my mangling functions are probably broken in some cases. If
> somebody with a better knowledge of CPAN versionning scheme could fix
> them it woul
On 29 June 2012 17:32, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
>
> EUSCAN_VERSION=0.71
>
> I don't know how difficult that would be for euscan to pickup on, but
> since this would have no bearing on actual package behavior, only on
> euscan, I'd guess it shouldn't require going thru the formal PMS pro
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 29 June 2012 01:59:37 Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> > On Monday 25 June 2012 00:15:59 Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> >> An official release of grub-2.00 should be coming pretty soon. I w
On Friday 29 June 2012 01:59:37 Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Monday 25 June 2012 00:15:59 Mike Gilbert wrote:
> >> An official release of grub-2.00 should be coming pretty soon. I would
> >> like to keyword this for ~amd64 and ~x86 shortly aft
Brian Harring schrieb:
>
> You need a glep here frankly; per the norm, if you want things to move
> faster, then put in time- aka, generate a patch against PMS, write a
> patch for portage, etc, you get the idea. The bit re: a PMS patch is
> mostly that in looking at your proposal... well, I p
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On 28/06/12 09:41 PM, Kent Fredric wrote:
> I was doing a fresh Gentoo install today, following the manual, and
> it appeared to me that the manual suggests to install a "logger"
> and a "cron", and gives some defacto suggestions.
>
> However, the a
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:07:58 +1200
> Kent Fredric wrote:
>
>> On 27 June 2012 19:51, Federico "fox" Scrinzi wrote:
>> > The main question is: what would you like to have on this dashboard?
>> > Currently (in the development version) there's
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:07 AM, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On 27 June 2012 19:51, Federico "fox" Scrinzi wrote:
>> The main question is: what would you like to have on this dashboard?
>> Currently (in the development version) there's the possibility to login
>> and watch/unwatch packages/categories/h
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>
> I don't really see a way to reliably call grub2-install from the
> ebuild, and I think this would be a bit unfriendly to the user anyway.
>
Please don't. We don't auto-install grub during the initial install,
so we have NO idea how users h
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