385581 – sys-boot/grub-1.99-r2 only installs grub2-install for one platform

Bug 385581 - sys-boot/grub-1.99-r2 only installs grub2-install for one platform

Summary: sys-boot/grub-1.99-r2 only installs grub2-install for one platform

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

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Reported:	2011-10-04 07:30 UTC by Chris Mayo
Modified:	2012-02-29 02:07 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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patch to ebuild (grub-1.99-r2.ebuild-platform.patch,731 bytes, text/plain) 2011-10-04 07:30 UTC, Chris Mayo	Details
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Description Chris Mayo 2011-10-04 07:30:19 UTC

Created attachment 288743 [details]
patch to ebuild

grub2-install (and apparently grub2-mkrescue and grub2-mknetdir although I haven't used them) are platform, and for efi target cpu dependent. The current ebuild installs only the version for one of the platforms listed in GRUB_PLATFORMS.

Attached is a patch that installs one version per platform of these scripts (and an elog improvement - but not one for grub2-install message which I guess would be needed with this patch).

Inspired by Arch Linux who create grub_bios-install, grub_efi_x86_64-install, grub_efi_i386-install. Of course this is not needed if only one platform is listed in GRUB_PLATFORMS.

Comment 1 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-10-05 11:30:07 UTC

I will look to it in next 14 days...

Comment 2 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-11-11 12:10:30 UTC

The problem is that the binaries are simple sh scripts that have no common.sh code that could be easy included based on what platform you want.

So one has to detect all the scripts that define the platform stuff and duplicate them...

Comment 3 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2012-02-29 02:07:20 UTC

This should be fixed via --program-transform-name in grub-2.00_beta0.