Bug 220047

Summary:	grub was slotted but files conflict
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) <alonbl>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-05-02 15:00:48 UTC

Hello,
I just tried to installed grub-1.96, I liked the idea it was slotted, but I then found out the files conflict, so this really isn't slotting.
Alon.

Comment 1 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-05-02 15:08:07 UTC

Can you provide a patch? It's not really maintained and it's a convenience thing that we expect people to provide a patch.

Comment 2 Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-05-02 16:13:28 UTC

Well... I could not make it work for me...
Used VMWare with ATA configuration.
Tried to load all kind of modules, but I don't see any new commands available in the menu...
So I will wait for next release.

Comment 3 Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-05-03 12:57:32 UTC

Succeeded in make current grub CVS work.
As far as I can see the command conflict is due to upstream usage, slotting this without upstream intention would be difficult.
We can install binaries with version suffix, and develop eselect module for grub to create proper link.
But this is too much work.

I suggest drop the slot.

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2008-05-05 03:36:58 UTC

dropped the SLOT ... hacking apart the install/build system is ugly and not maintainable