Hi, On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:22:18AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Hello! > > Quoting shirish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi all, > > I have been trying to see when GRUB2 is packaged so I could try > >it, use it & understand all or any differences. I am running Ubuntu > >Hardy Heron (unstable). > > I think you make a wrong assumption here, that if GRUB2 is packaged, > changing the bootloader will be easy and safe. I really doubt that > it's possible to make such package at this stage of GRUB2 development. > Whoever makes such package will be bombarded with questions and > complaints about systems that don't boot. > > In particular, the current code is known to be broken on PowerMac. > > >AFAIK Ubuntu sources the GRUB2 package from > >Debian Sid & the last packaging was done on 20071101-1 > >http://packages.debian.org/sid/grub2 . I was just wondering if > >somebody knows of any discussion as to what kind of decisions are made > >for packaging it and/or somehow to get a feed of whenever they package > >it i.e. the latest. > > If you interested in packaging for Debian and Ubuntu, perhaps you > should talk to the packagers.
I do the packages for Debian Sid. If you have questions about the package provided at http://packages.debian.org/sid/grub2, feel free to ask me directly or via Debian BTS. I expect it should work on any flavour of Debian, including Ubuntu ones. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
