[Bug 1611740] Re: remove grub, superseded by grub2

[Phillip Susi]

Yay!  It only took 7 years ;)

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[Bug 1611740] Re: remove grub, superseded by grub2

[Steve Langasek]

Removing packages from zesty:
grub 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty
grub 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty amd64
grub 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty i386
grub-disk 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty amd64
grub-disk 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty arm64
grub-disk 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty armhf
grub-disk 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty i386
grub-disk 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty powerpc
grub-disk 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty ppc64el
grub-disk 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty s390x
grub-doc 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty amd64
grub-doc 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty arm64
grub-doc 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty armhf
grub-doc 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty i386
grub-doc 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty powerpc
grub-doc 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty ppc64el
grub-doc 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty s390x
grub-legacy-doc 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty amd64
grub-legacy-doc 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty arm64
grub-legacy-doc 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty armhf
grub-legacy-doc 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty i386
grub-legacy-doc 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty powerpc
grub-legacy-doc 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty ppc64el
grub-legacy-doc 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty s390x
multiboot-doc 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty amd64
multiboot-doc 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty arm64
multiboot-doc 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty armhf
multiboot-doc 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty i386
multiboot-doc 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty powerpc
multiboot-doc 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty ppc64el
multiboot-doc 0.97-29ubuntu69 in zesty s390x
Comment: Obsoleted by grub2; LP: #1611740
Remove [y|N]? y
1 package successfully removed.


** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu)
   Status: Incomplete => Fix Released

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[Bug 1611740] Re: remove grub, superseded by grub2

[Steve Langasek]

I have spoken with the Canonical CPC team, and the EC2 AMIs are not
built using the grub source package; they only use the grub-legacy-ec2
package (built from cloud-init source) which provides grub1-compatible
menu.lst.

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[Bug 1611740] Re: remove grub, superseded by grub2

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

grub legacy support is indeed removed from grub-installer now (see above
upload comment).

However, grub is apparently still required when building new AMI
instances for EC2. I think it probably best not be removed until we can
ascertain its use. I've asked the CPC team already.

According to the AWS docs:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/create-instance-store-ami.html
grub-legacy is still used to build images. I've used an approximation of that 
logic to try to make a new AMI, and it looks like things still work without it, 
except that the status monitoring then fails for the instance.


** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Incomplete

** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu)
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)

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[Bug 1611740] Re: remove grub, superseded by grub2

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This bug was fixed in the package grub-installer - 1.128ubuntu6

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grub-installer (1.128ubuntu6) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * grub-installer: remove grub/grub-legacy code. We only do variants of grub2.
(LP: #1611740)

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre   Thu, 11 Aug 2016
14:07:06 -0400

** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
   Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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[Bug 1611740] Re: remove grub, superseded by grub2

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** Branch linked: lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/grub-installer/ubuntu

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[Bug 1611740] Re: remove grub, superseded by grub2

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

I had looked anyway and the "upgrade path" appears appropriate.
Installing grub-pc will tell you how to proceed with the upgrade, in
which case you can either chainload the new grub or replace things
altogether. Seems to me like a go to remove grub.

Adding the grub-installer task to drop the extra preseed option to do
grub instead of grub2.


** Also affects: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)

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Re: [Bug 1611740] Re: remove grub, superseded by grub2

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 01:33:34PM -, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote:
> Looks like we only install grub (legacy) if we're about to install grub-
> pc and "grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy" is preseeded to
> false, which typically doesn't happen. It's default is true, and we
> don't set this in ubiquity or d-i.

> grub-legacy-ec2 installs some data for EC2 instances that is relevant to
> grub; we should definitely look at how we'd affect it by removing grub
> (but I think it's safe there)

> The open question that remains is handling upgrades.

grub (0.97-29ubuntu68) xenial; urgency=medium

  * No-change rebuild for ncurses6 transition.

 -- Matthias Klose   Sun, 07 Feb 2016 09:41:39 +

grub (0.97-29ubuntu67) wily; urgency=medium

  * Port to modern Automake versions and use dh-autoreconf (closes:
#724383).
  * Build with -fno-combine-stack-adjustments, since that optimisation pass
confuses the stack games played by GRUB itself (closes: #768135).
  * Stop linking statically on amd64, which was a holdover from a long time
ago when we couldn't just depend on biarch libraries (closes: #769349).

 -- Colin Watson   Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:52:39 +0100

grub (0.97-29ubuntu66) precise; urgency=low




There have been only two uploads of the grub package since the release of
the oldest supported LTS (4 years ago).  It stopped being a default
bootloader longer ago than that.  We should be honest with ourselves
that we're never going to take the time to finish automated upgrade support
for grub->grub2 and just drop the package.


We should definitely fix grub-installer to not try to install a non-existent
grub package from the archive, with or without preseed.

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[Bug 1611740] Re: remove grub, superseded by grub2

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

Looks like we only install grub (legacy) if we're about to install grub-
pc and "grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy" is preseeded to
false, which typically doesn't happen. It's default is true, and we
don't set this in ubiquity or d-i.

grub-legacy-ec2 installs some data for EC2 instances that is relevant to
grub; we should definitely look at how we'd affect it by removing grub
(but I think it's safe there)

The open question that remains is handling upgrades.

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