From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3453113989A for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 01:46:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6AD7F141E3; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 01:46:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yk0-f171.google.com (mail-yk0-f171.google.com [209.85.160.171]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4C1AC14179 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 01:46:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ykfw73 with SMTP id w73so172725476ykf.3 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:46:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=uiKaBVdYpH4O9IRnWdRUQse8oLJR83XjlJ9GMW17lXQ=; b=yrDxbyVVh6csWYiEJJJpgmBZRItvsIv9m9/k3A+NMTvHj37ZQjccFbbkr8Qtn9IAeI fTk/vW8tpgN38BJbrXuqRYF6a8HE2VA80zMcBPacMtwgRuAkD+dMwmAvJ6eYn3KCkCOL AxDK7Hi9GMmqRhxQ4u03fVitkJKVsx7A8cF3FZa/iqVSvVhDPEFViPov6Z3lbKPYMTmz t/ipmg0W6DDYQ7D0sat+MHwhxORDQTY2HmyZodPIdPthah+emJEDd+R6f+kn6wTFu0Km BcwlILhjvwv51YY1lYFlOnCb6yvLaKc+0pm/2qcJQW6VqTZCPJ2/WA5uMF2Lavl6MTTm ukvQ== X-Received: by 10.13.245.135 with SMTP id e129mr234791ywf.13.1440553594497; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:46:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-115-33.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.115.33]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t14sm1150089ywf.56.2015.08.25.18.46.33 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:46:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55DD1A78.5070406@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 20:46:32 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0 SeaMonkey/2.33.1 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] Re: keeping grub 1 References: <20150825222009.170d66d6@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5de0944b-3148-4e8f-a713-401c055c49b6 X-Archives-Hash: 855b59b301a4eeeca45b1e18a66ec39d James wrote: > Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > >>> If I just unmerge grub and emerge grub-static, is that the >>> best way to prevent grub-2 from ever being installed? >>> Other caveats to worry about? > > OK, so before anyone responded, I just masked the relevant > versions of grub2 in package.mask. > > > =sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r7 > =sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r3 > =sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2 > >> emerge -n sys-boot/grub:0 and make sure no other grub entries appear in >> world > > I added the generic grub2 to the package.mask > > sys-boot/grub:2 > > It's all good now. I'm ignoring grub-static. > grub-0.97.r14 seems fine. > > > thx (everyone), > James > To be sure, I'd take the lowest version and put a >= in front. Based on what I get here, it should look like this in the mask file: >=sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2 That way you don't have to worry about the new version that may come later, and if the old grub gets removed from the tree. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-)