Its been in portage since 10/8/2006. Please stablize. sys-boot/grub-0.97-r3 USE="-custom-cflags -netboot -static" on x86: 1: emerges ok 2: passes collision test 3: works emerge --info: Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r5 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2500 @ 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:30:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict test" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa alsa_cards_hda-intel alsa_pcm_plugins_adpcm alsa_pcm_plugins_alaw alsa_pcm_plugins_asym alsa_pcm_plugins_copy alsa_pcm_plugins_dmix alsa_pcm_plugins_dshare alsa_pcm_plugins_dsnoop alsa_pcm_plugins_empty alsa_pcm_plugins_extplug alsa_pcm_plugins_file alsa_pcm_plugins_hooks alsa_pcm_plugins_iec958 alsa_pcm_plugins_ioplug alsa_pcm_plugins_ladspa alsa_pcm_plugins_lfloat alsa_pcm_plugins_linear alsa_pcm_plugins_meter alsa_pcm_plugins_mulaw alsa_pcm_plugins_multi alsa_pcm_plugins_null alsa_pcm_plugins_plug alsa_pcm_plugins_rate alsa_pcm_plugins_route alsa_pcm_plugins_share alsa_pcm_plugins_shm alsa_pcm_plugins_softvol apm berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus divx dlloader dri dvd dvdread elibc_glibc emacs encode ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics ipv6 isdnlog ithreads java jpeg jpeg2k kernel_linux ldap libg++ mad mmx mmxext mono mp3 mp4 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg openal opengl oss pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline realmedia reflection session spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl tcpd test threads truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU vcd video_cards_nvidia vidix win32codecs wmf wmp x264 xine xml xorg xv xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
virtual.unavailable 8 sys-boot/grub/grub-0.94-r1.ebuild: x86(hardened/x86/2.6) virtual/bootloader sys-boot/grub/grub-0.96-r2.ebuild: x86(hardened/x86/2.6) virtual/bootloader sys-boot/grub/grub-0.97.ebuild: ~x86(hardened/x86/2.6) virtual/bootloader sys-boot/grub/grub-0.97-r3.ebuild: x86(hardened/x86/2.6) virtual/bootloader sys-boot/grub/grub-0.96-r1.ebuild: x86(hardened/x86/2.6) virtual/bootloader sys-boot/grub/grub-0.92-r1.ebuild: x86(hardened/x86/2.6) virtual/bootloader sys-boot/grub/grub-0.96-r3.ebuild: ~x86(hardened/x86/2.6) virtual/bootloader sys-boot/grub/grub-0.97-r2.ebuild: x86(hardened/x86/2.6) virtual/bootloader
That, of course, doesn't mean a showstopper for this stabilizing. x86 done.
During emerge, /boot is mounted for installation of files into /boot/grub. However, it is then not unmounted, and should be.
stable on amd64.
