[Buildroot] [PATCH 15/28] grub2: remove package

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Sun Jul 10 13:31:33 UTC 2011


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 Thomas> Grub 2 has been marked BROKEN in June 2010, and nobody cared to fix it
 Thomas> since then.

 Thomas> At that time, it was marked broken because the build process needed a
 Thomas> Ruby interpreter available on the host, and it's really a pain that
 Thomas> building a bootloader needs such a thing.

 Thomas> I've tried to upgrade the package to Grub2 1.99-rcX, and now it does
 Thomas> not need a Ruby interpreter anymore, but instead requires a tool
 Thomas> called "autogen", which itself needs the Guile Scheme interpreter.

 Thomas> Since we haven't heard any complaints about Grub2 being marked broken,
 Thomas> and since it's such a pain to package, let's get rid of it. Of course,
 Thomas> anybody interested in Grub2 is invited to contribute a working
 Thomas> package.

Committed, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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