Public bug reported: grub-legacy-ec2 is a binary package provided by Ubuntu cloud-init source package. I'm hoping that we can finally sunset this thing in bionic.
Canonical no longer publishes PV images on EC2, so there is no need for this package in EC2 images speficially. (http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/W5H33Mb7Pz/) I'd like to drop this from cloud-init and suggest pv-grub-menu to anyone looking for equivalent function. It seems like we would likely want to include pv-grub-menu in the images. That would be useful to non-aws users of xen (IBM/Softlayer) or users publishing their own images to amazon. Some background info: * grub-legacy-ec2 has really no relevancy to cloud-init. It just got stuck there within the first year I worked for Canonical because I didn't really know any better. It would have been better if it was a separate package from the start. Force of friction left it where it was. * grub-legacy-ec2 builds a /boot/grub/menu.lst file for installed kernels the same way 'update-grub' builds /boot/grub/grub.cfg but does so without conflicting with grub2 or attempting to install a bootloader. That boot/grub/menu.lst file is then read (most commonly) by a program named 'pv-grub'. * 'pv-grub-menu' that does roughly the equivalent, but possibly does not have some of the changes that we've made to grub-legacy-ec2 to properly identify xen kernels. It even 'Provides' grub-legacy-ec2. * currently ubuntu-server/server seed explicitly includes grub-legacy-ec2 that is the only reverse-depends. ** Affects: cloud-images Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: cloud-init (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: pv-grub-menu (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: cloud-init (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: pv-grub-menu (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: cloud-init (Ubuntu) Milestone: None => ubuntu-18.04 ** Changed in: pv-grub-menu (Ubuntu) Milestone: None => ubuntu-18.04 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1756420 Title: replace grub-legacy-ec2 with pv-grub-menu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-images/+bug/1756420/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
