diff --git a/README.Fedora b/README.Fedora new file mode 100644 index 0000000..69dc7f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.Fedora @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +Using GNU GRUB 2 in Fedora +========================== + +Though GRUB 2 provides various feature enhancements over previous GRUB +version (referred to as "GRUB", or "GRUB Legacy"), it did not reach its +stability and feature completness yet, and thus is not ready to replace +it for the whole user base. This package is primarily intended to +encourage testing and accelerate distribution integration. + +It is generally safe to install the package. It is able to co-exist with +existing GRUB installation and adds itself to the GRUB menu upon +installation, so you'll able to select GRUB 2 from GRUB menu during +the boot. + +Utilities +--------- + +The GRUB 2 utilities are prefixed (or postfixed) with 'grub2': + +grub2-editenv +grub2-mkimage +grub2-mkelfimage +grub2-mkrescue +grub2-pe2elf +grub2-emu +grub2-install +grub2-mkdevicemap +grub2-probe +grub2-setup +update-grub2 + +Documentation +------------- + +The GRUB 2 lacks documentation. While you are encouraged to contribute +the documentation, you can use the GRUB 2 Wiki [1] as primary source of +information pertaining to this development snapshot. + +[1] http://grub.enbug.org/ + +If you intend to install grub2 as your primary boot loader refer to +the GRUB 2 Wiki for information on how to set it up. + +Support channels +---------------- + +If you find a bug in this package, report them to the Red Hat Bugzilla [2]. +For talk about using grub2, use IRC channel #grub on freenode Network [3]. +You can meet this package maintainer there (nick lkundrak). + +[2] http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ +[3] http://freenode.net/ + +-- +Lubomir Rintel +Fedora Project diff --git a/grub2.spec b/grub2.spec index b51f20e..a076045 100644 --- a/grub2.spec +++ b/grub2.spec @@ -38,18 +38,19 @@ Name: grub2 Version: 1.98 -Release: 0.2.20080807svn%{?dist} +Release: 0.3.20080827svn%{?dist} Summary: Bootloader with support for Linux, Multiboot and more Group: System Environment/Base License: GPLv3+ URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ #Source0: http://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/grub/grub-%{version}.tar.gz -# svn -r1797 co svn://svn.sv.gnu.org/grub/trunk/grub2 +# svn -r1829 co svn://svn.sv.gnu.org/grub/trunk/grub2 # tar czf grub2.tar.gz --exclude .svn grub2 Source0: grub2.tar.gz Source1: 90_persistent Source2: grub.default +Source3: README.Fedora Patch1: grub-1.98-prototypes.patch Patch2: grub-1.98-transform.patch Patch4: grub-1.95-grubdir.patch @@ -81,6 +82,12 @@ a highly configurable and customizable bootloader with modular architecture. It support rich scale of kernel formats, file systems, computer architectures and hardware devices. +PLEASE NOTE: This is a development snapshot, and as such will not +replace grub if you install it, but will be merely added as another +kernel to your existing GRUB menu. Do not replace GRUB (grub package) +with it unless you know what are you doing. Refer to README.Fedora +file that is part of this package's documentation for more information. + %prep %setup -q -n grub2 @@ -91,11 +98,14 @@ computer architectures and hardware devices. %patch5 -p1 -b .os %patch6 -p1 -b .cfgmode %patch7 -p1 -b .garbage -%patch8 -p1 -b .persistent +%patch8 -F2 -p1 -b .persistent %patch9 -p0 -b .linuxsort %patch10 -p1 -b .dlsym %patch13 -p1 -b .preserve-symbols +# README.Fedora +cp %{SOURCE3} . + %build # -static is needed so that autoconf script is able to link @@ -199,6 +209,7 @@ update-%{name} %{_sbindir}/%{name}-setup %{_sbindir}/update-%{name} %{_bindir}/%{name}-mkimage +%{_bindir}/%{name}-mkelfimage %{_bindir}/%{name}-mkrescue %{_bindir}/%{name}-editenv %{_bindir}/%{name}-pe2elf @@ -211,11 +222,15 @@ update-%{name} # Actually, this is replaced by update-grub from scriptlets, # but it takes care of modified persistent part %config(noreplace) /boot/%{name}/grub.cfg -%doc COPYING INSTALL NEWS README THANKS TODO ChangeLog +%doc COPYING INSTALL NEWS README THANKS TODO ChangeLog README.Fedora %exclude %{_mandir} %changelog +* Wed Aug 27 2008 Lubomir Rintel - 1.98-0.3.20080827svn +- Updated SVN snapshot +- Added huge fat warnings + * Fri Aug 08 2008 Lubomir Rintel - 1.98-0.2.20080807svn - Correct scriptlet dependencies, trigger on kernel-PAE (thanks to Till Maas) - Fix build on x86_64 (thanks to Marek Mahut) diff --git a/sources b/sources index 75eaf92..ba8ca28 100644 --- a/sources +++ b/sources @@ -1 +1 @@ -e900ada389acd04b579583cb2179ef61 grub2.tar.gz +27ca6fe1350ec41ed79e31a404c055fb grub2.tar.gz