On 2009-09-05 07:45 +0200, Miles Bader wrote: > The newest version of the "grub" package is a dummy package which > depends on "grub-pc", and is supposed to cause that pckage to replace > the old "grub-legacy" package. > > On my system, currently "grub" and "grub-legacy" are installed; > grub-legacy is marked "auto". > > However if I just do "U" to upgrade, aptitude marks _all_ of the grub > packages to be uninstalled, and _doesn't_ mark grub-pc for installation. > > This seems very dangerous -- wouldn't it mean a simple upgrade causes > the system to end up without any bootloader at all?!
Yes. Although it would at least not make the system unbootable, because the files in /boot/grub are not touched. > (I _can_ install "grub-pc" explicitly, so there's no obvious conflict) There is, grub-pc conflicts with grub. I'll file a bug report on that issue. Sven _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
