On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Mike Gilbert posted on Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:56:25 -0400 as excerpted: > >> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Doug Goldstein <car...@gentoo.org> >> wrote: >>> Since Grub Legacy and Grub 2 are slotted, Portage won't remove the >>> older version. Even if it removes the older one, everything necessary >>> is installed into /boot and the MBR already. >> >> Portage will remove the older slot the next time the user runs emerge >> --depclean unless sys-boot/grub:0 is added to the world file. I'm >> looking for a good way to communicate this to the user. >> >> How about this: For ~arch, we do an ewarn in pkg_postinst if grub:0 is >> installed. For stable, we do a news item. > > Here's a bit of a different idea: > > Changing the bootloader is really a profile level change. If appropriate > grub2-defaulted new profiles are created, and the old ones set to specify > grub:0 as their default bootloader and then deprecated, this will > automatically both provide the appropriate upgrade preparation required > hint, and allow users to upgrade on their own schedule during the usual > profile deprecation period. >
Profiles do not set a "default bootloader" so I have no idea what you are talking about. Installing grub:2 does not replace grub:0 until the user actually runs grub2-install, so you can already upgrade on your own schedule.
