Re: Conclusion: problem installing grub-legacy
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 04:12:58PM +0000, T o n g wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:57:04 -0700, Freeman wrote:
>
> >> I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now
> >> I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub-
> >> legacy. But the grub-common package has been upgraded for use with
> >> version 2 only.
> >>
> > I posted this past week about grub-common confusion that turned a simple
> > legacy install into a long session. Grub-common rides in with legacy
> > and makes an /etc/grub.d directory and scatters files all over the
> > /boot/grub directory, including grub.cfg . But then it just sits there
> > and tries to look like Grub-PC is installed.
>
> Yes, I saw that. In fact, you can see that my words are borrowed from
> yours, :-) Just that I wasn't sure of the solution.
>
Right, missed that. Good choice of words. :-)
...
>
> FYI, I hate grub-common messing up with my /boot/grub and /etc/grub.d
> directory, so I'll use 'equivs' to create a dummy packages to circumvent
> such silly package dependencies.
>
> equivs - Circumvent Debian package dependencies
>
> "This package provides a tool to create Debian packages that only
> contain dependency information".
>
Noted, and thanks. I learn more than just one thing daily on this list.
(Which is easy given my starting point.)
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Kind Regards,
Freeman
http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
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