From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RC514-0006f0-Sn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:38:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5475221C11A; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 07:38:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.23]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C164221C069 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 07:37:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 Oct 2011 07:37:33 -0000 Received: from i59F54716.versanet.de (EHLO [192.168.66.136]) [89.245.71.22] by mail.gmx.net (mp051) with SMTP; 07 Oct 2011 09:37:33 +0200 X-Authenticated: #351132 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18pXoJ2ALspktd1yseIKU0KMeb3Qs6rbf42aYzUWR XWq7q4H5Odi1I1 Message-ID: <4E8EAC13.5000805@gmx.net> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:36:51 +0200 From: Jonas de Buhr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: change and improvement References: <4E8AD6C4.7070901@gmail.com> <20111005162007.GA5820@badass.gateway.2wire.net> <20111005184721.01af0bda@toxic.dbnet> <201110060018.50015.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20111006102023.4471babe@toxic.dbnet> <4E8E0112.3010208@orlitzky.com> <20111006230040.04f9af0f@toxic.dbnet> <4E8E1C54.4010706@orlitzky.com> <20111007014214.5756f0f5@toxic.dbnet> <4E8E4DE9.8040308@orlitzky.com> In-Reply-To: <4E8E4DE9.8040308@orlitzky.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: f333ceba303945fc4db88b0d5d079794 Am 07.10.2011 02:55, schrieb Michael Orlitzky: > On 10/06/11 19:42, Jonas de Buhr wrote: >>> If we have some grub-legacy and some grub2 installs, >> why would you do that? > Eventually, grub2 will be all that's available from portage. At that > point, I can either, > > 1) Install grub2 on some machines. > > 2) Maintain grub-legacy (and install media) myself. i really don't think thats the way its going to be. i think there will be grub and grub2 in portage potentially forever. like with python 2 and 3. even if not, 2) takes you one cp command and a little bit of disk space for the grub tarball. > > >> have a look at the link i posted. if you really want to keep it simple, >> grub2 can be configured with a single grub.cfg file. > How much work would it be for you to, > > * Learn grub2 if you're ok with the single .cfg: done. > * Travel to my office here in Baltimore first class flight please. > * Test it on all combinations of hardware that we currently run > * Document the standard config and any special cases ok. > * Upgrade a bunch of my servers at 4am? why not choose a convenient time to upgrade? > > If you still think it's "not much" then I'd be happy to have you do it > while I drink margaritas. no, i still don't think its as much of a big deal as you make of it. about as much work as a kernel upgrade. let's wait for grub2 to go stable before you send me that ticket ;)