On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > Wil Reichert <[email protected]> posted > [email protected], excerpted > below, on Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:55:42 -0800: > >> Anyone know if grub-static-0.97-r9 supports ext4? There seem to be >> patches floating around which add support, but I'm unable to tell if the >> gentoo version has this or not. > > You've probably seen the saying: > > "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. > Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime." > > In that spirit... > > Documenting that sort of thing is what changelogs are for. > > Try this, making the path substitution appropriate for your system: > > head -20 $PORTDIR/sys-boot/grub-static/Changelog > > See what it says about the version you asked about? Guess where you look > now. > > There's your answer. =:^)
The Changelog thing is useful thanks, but void / # head -20 /usr/portage/sys-boot/grub-static/ChangeLog # ChangeLog for sys-boot/grub-static # Copyright 2000-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-boot/grub-static/ChangeLog,v 1.18 2009/01/11 21:04:00 maekke Exp $ 11 Jan 2009; Markus Meier <[email protected]> grub-static-0.97-r6.ebuild: amd64 stable, bug #254028 *grub-static-0.97-r9 (03 Jan 2009) 03 Jan 2009; Christoph Mende <[email protected]> +grub-static-0.97-r9.ebuild: Version bump to match sys-boot/grub 28 Oct 2008; Christoph Mende <[email protected]> grub-static-0.97-r6.ebuild: Added missing inherit eutils, bug 244706 *grub-static-0.97-r6 (27 Oct 2008) 27 Oct 2008; Robin H. Johnson <[email protected]> doesn't answer my initial question =) Throwing my fishing pole back into the water I noticed that neither the grub-static or grub Changelogs reference ext4 so I'm going to suppose the answer to my question is no. Wil
