[Bug 443326] Re: Update-manager tries to install grub-2 update on system with legacy grub

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Mittwoch, den 07.10.2009, 15:41 +0000 schrieb Lars Wirzenius:
> Yeah, that should happen. I assume that update-manager doesn't have any special code for handling grub in
> normal upgrades, and that grub's and grub-pc's dependency fields should take care of not replacing one package with the other.
> Thus, I'll reassign this to grub-pc; please reassign back or to a more appropriate package as necessary.

The GRUB Legacy and GRUB 2 packages already conflict against each other.
The only exception is grub-common, which is generated from grub2 but
even grub depends on it because of grub-probe.
It's not at all a bug that it's installed on a system which still uses
GRUB Legacy.

I leave it to Colin to close the bug or reassign it.

>The upgrade program should detect the fact that the legacy grub is
>installed, and leave it alone, unless the files being updated are
>appropriate for the 0.97 grub.

For this to be implemented someone would need to maintain a list if that
grub-common update is needed also for GRUB Legacy users or not.

-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer

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Update-manager tries to install grub-2 update on system with legacy grub
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