Bug 575334

Summary:	sys-boot/grub:2 set subslot to ${PV}
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) <cardoe>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Mike Gilbert <floppym>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-02-21 21:59:26 UTC

Can you please add a subslot to sys-boot/grub:2 which is just PV so that app-emulation/grub-xen-host can rebuild on new version releases? A few people have wanted this in light of the security issue in grub:2.

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2016-02-25 03:04:48 UTC

commit 509202eb2bb13f4490e0083a9b4abe2cb0398e3f
Author: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
Date:   Wed Feb 24 22:04:04 2016 -0500

    sys-boot/grub: Set subslot to PVR
    
    This change allows packages to rebuild themselves whenever grub is upgraded.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/575334
    
    Package-Manager: portage-2.2.27_p64

 sys-boot/grub/grub-2.02_beta2-r8.ebuild | 4 ++--
 sys-boot/grub/grub-2.02_beta2-r9.ebuild | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)