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Re: next release of grub2?


From: KESHAV P.R.
Subject: Re: next release of grub2?
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:36:38 +0530

IMHO you guys should release monthly snapshot tarballs for use in distros.

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 14:41, Colin Watson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:55:43AM +0530, KESHAV P.R. wrote:
>> The link for new version
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Obtaining-and-Building-GRUB
>> - ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-1.98-r2613.tar.gz does not exist.
>
> I noticed this when building that version of the manual, but since we
> don't have snapshot tarballs it seems as good a link as any ...
>
>> In my system I manually compile the bzr version but I cannot do the
>> same for packaging, I need a release version accoding to Archlinux
>> Guidelines.
>
> You're out of luck then, unless you want to roll a tarball manually and
> that would be acceptable.  I'm not sure what the 1.99 plans are at this
> point - Vladimir?
>
>> The GRUB manual has good info, but only for bios systems. It does not
>> talk about compiling and setting up grub2 for efi, coreboot and other
>> firmwares grub2 supports. Those info are still available only at
>> http://grub.enbug.org . Maybe you guys should move that site to
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub .
>
> Please propose changes to the GRUB manual as diffs against
> docs/grub.texi, if there are things you feel need to be included there.
> I've been doing quite a bit of work on it of late, but most of my
> experience is on PC BIOS systems and I need assistance from others to
> document other platforms effectively.
>
> I don't feel that simply moving the wiki pages to a new location would
> be much of an improvement.
>
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