[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.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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