next release of grub2?

next release of grub2?

[KESHAV P.R.]

When is the next release of grub2 going to be? Distros like Archlinux
and Fedora do not use intermediate bzr versions like Ubuntu and Debian
do. These distro are using grub 1.98 which is way too old for the
number of revisions bzr repo has seen. Please release 1.98.1 or 1.99
sooner.

I also noticed lots of spam in http://grub.enbug.org/
(http://grub.enbug.org/RecentChanges), seems to have been hacked. This
the only site that currently hosts whatever documentation grub2
carries (atleast for non-BIOS related stuff - like UEFI etc.). Please
correct it. Thank you.

Re: next release of grub2?

[Bruce Dubbs]

KESHAV P.R. wrote:

> This the only site that currently hosts whatever documentation grub2
> carries.

Did you see http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/index.html

   -- Bruce

Re: next release of grub2?

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 03:36:38PM +0530, KESHAV P.R. wrote:
> IMHO you guys should release monthly snapshot tarballs for use in distros.

More frequent releases would be a smarter thing to do.  Distributions
should not be using non-blessed snapshots unless they're substantially
involved in GRUB development and know what they're doing.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]

Re: next release of grub2?

[KESHAV P.R.]

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

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 14:41, Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> 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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Re: next release of grub2?

[Colin Watson]

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.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]

Re: next release of grub2?

[KESHAV P.R.]

I am trying to package grub2 for efi for archlinux
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39904 and
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39905 .

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.
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.

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 .

Regards

Keshav