From patchwork Thu Jun 23 16:50:31 2011 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Tim Gardner X-Patchwork-Id: 101655 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from chlorine.canonical.com (chlorine.canonical.com [91.189.94.204]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ECD4B6F82 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 02:50:46 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=chlorine.canonical.com) by chlorine.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZn6y-0000Hb-JD; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:50:36 +0000 Received: from mail.tpi.com ([70.99.223.143]) by chlorine.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZn6w-0000HN-I9 for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:50:34 +0000 Received: from [10.0.2.5] (host-174-44-148-181.hln-mt.client.bresnan.net [174.44.148.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mail.tpi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36FF82C8C05 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:50:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E036ED7.10009@canonical.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:50:31 -0600 From: Tim Gardner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kernel team list Subject: Natty SRU (V3): UBUNTU: [Config] Add grub-efi as a recommended bootloader for server and generic References: <4E0356D9.6080907@canonical.com> <4E0364E6.9010102@canonical.com> In-Reply-To: <4E0364E6.9010102@canonical.com> X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: tim.gardner@canonical.com List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com tgardner: grub-efi should definitely never be first and "forces removal due to missing recommends" is nonsense an unsatisfied recommends should not force removing a package also, the real packages involved are grub-efi-amd64 and grub-efi-ia32 - grub-efi is a metapackage good grief, that apt-get output is incredibly weird tgardner: in my book, that's an apt bug and you should give mvo a task for it - adding non-first grub-efi-amd64 | grub-efi-ia32 Recommends won't hurt though cjwatson, well, should I reference the meta package, or the underlying package (since they are somewhat arch dependent, right?) underlying it doesn't matter if you recommend something that's missing especially when it's one of several alternatives cjwatson, ok, can do referring to the metapackage: consider the case where somebody has grub-efi-amd64 installed but not grub-efi makes sense I still think it's not really your problem, but fixing apt's resolver in a stable release probably isn't happenng rtg From 1d8aa2c6ff16ae938723b0aeb1292beb1af7c610 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Gardner Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:55:53 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] UBUNTU: [Config] Add grub-efi as a recommended bootloader for server and generic BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/800910 Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner --- debian.master/control.d/vars.generic | 2 +- debian.master/control.d/vars.server | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian.master/control.d/vars.generic b/debian.master/control.d/vars.generic index 200acfd..fd5220f 100644 --- a/debian.master/control.d/vars.generic +++ b/debian.master/control.d/vars.generic @@ -2,5 +2,5 @@ arch="i386 amd64" supported="Generic" target="Geared toward desktop systems." desc="x86/x86_64" -bootloader="grub-pc | grub | lilo (>= 19.1)" +bootloader="grub-pc | grub-efi-amd64 | grub-efi-ia32 | grub | lilo (>= 19.1)" provides="kvm-api-4, redhat-cluster-modules, ivtv-modules, ndiswrapper-modules-1.9" diff --git a/debian.master/control.d/vars.server b/debian.master/control.d/vars.server index 0f1e41c..b8a53a4 100644 --- a/debian.master/control.d/vars.server +++ b/debian.master/control.d/vars.server @@ -2,5 +2,5 @@ arch="amd64" supported="Server" target="Geared toward 64 bit server systems." desc="x86_64" -bootloader="grub-pc | grub | lilo (>= 19.1)" +bootloader="grub-pc | grub-efi-amd64 | grub | lilo (>= 19.1)" provides="redhat-cluster-modules, kvm-api-4, ivtv-modules, ndiswrapper-modules-1.9" -- 1.7.0.4