[ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

[ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

[Christian Franke]

I would like to contribute my Cygwin port of the boot manager GRUB2.
(http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2.en.html)

http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/grub/grub-1.96-1.tar.bz2
http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/grub/grub-1.96-1-src.tar.bz2
http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/grub/setup.hint

This package is based on upstream CVS snapshot from 2008-03-26.

GRUB2 is included in Debian testing and in the backports for Debian stable:

http://packages.debian.org/lenny/grub-pc
http://packages.debian.org/etch-backports/grub-pc

Christian

Re: [ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

[Charles Wilson]

Christian Franke wrote:
> I would like to contribute my Cygwin port of the boot manager GRUB2.
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2.en.html)
> 

Is anybody else as confused as I am? How in the world can you have a 
*boot manager* ported to cygwin?  Cygwin requires the host Windows OS to 
be up and running; it has nothing to do with pre-OS bootloader operations...

Unless I'm really missing something here, I don't think this is an 
appropriate candidate for the cygwin distro -- but I'm open to 
persuasion if somebody can kindly explain how cygwin-grub2 could 
POSSIBLY be of any use at all...

-1

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Chuck

Re: [ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

[Christian Franke]

Charles Wilson wrote:
> Christian Franke wrote:
>> I would like to contribute my Cygwin port of the boot manager GRUB2.
>> (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2.en.html)
>>
>
> Is anybody else as confused as I am? How in the world can you have a 
> *boot manager* ported to cygwin?  Cygwin requires the host Windows OS 
> to be up and running; it has nothing to do with pre-OS bootloader 
> operations...
>

Yes, it would not make much sense to port the source for the native 
binaries of some boot manager to Cygwin (except to provide another build 
platform).

But the GRUB2 package does contain more than these binaries (kernel.img 
+ 76 .mod files). It provides several support tools to install 
(grub-install), try boot menu and shell (grub-emu), check native 
filesystem access (grub-fstest) or build rescue boot cdrom/floppy images 
(grub-mkrescue).

All these tools require some booted OS.


> Unless I'm really missing something here, I don't think this is an 
> appropriate candidate for the cygwin distro -- but I'm open to 
> persuasion if somebody can kindly explain how cygwin-grub2 could 
> POSSIBLY be of any use at all...

If GRUB2 is used and Windows is the main work OS, it is IMO useful to 
maintain the boot manger from Cygwin. If GRUB2 is not used as boot 
manger, the tools in the package can still be used to create rescue 
disks, tryout the boot shell or even access files in partitions with 
non-Windows filesystem.

Christian

Re: [ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

[Eric Blake]

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According to Christian Franke on 3/27/2008 4:32 AM:
| If GRUB2 is used and Windows is the main work OS, it is IMO useful to
| maintain the boot manger from Cygwin. If GRUB2 is not used as boot
| manger, the tools in the package can still be used to create rescue
| disks, tryout the boot shell or even access files in partitions with
| non-Windows filesystem.

I agree with those points, and vote +1 for the package.

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Re: [ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

[Charles Wilson]

Christian Franke wrote:
> But the GRUB2 package does contain more than these binaries (kernel.img 
> + 76 .mod files). It provides several support tools to install 
> (grub-install), try boot menu and shell (grub-emu), check native 
> filesystem access (grub-fstest) or build rescue boot cdrom/floppy images 
> (grub-mkrescue).
[snip]
> If GRUB2 is used and Windows is the main work OS, it is IMO useful to 
> maintain the boot manger from Cygwin. If GRUB2 is not used as boot 
> manger, the tools in the package can still be used to create rescue 
> disks, tryout the boot shell or even access files in partitions with 
> non-Windows filesystem.

That makes sense.  Objection withdrawn, and +1.

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Chuck

RE: [ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

[Dave Korn]

Christian Franke wrote on 26 March 2008 19:48:

> I would like to contribute my Cygwin port of the boot manager GRUB2.


+1.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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Re: [ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

[Dr. Volker Zell]

>>>>> Charles Wilson writes:

    > Christian Franke wrote:
    >> But the GRUB2 package does contain more than these binaries
    >> (kernel.img + 76 .mod files). It provides several support tools to
    >> install (grub-install), try boot menu and shell (grub-emu), check
    >> native filesystem access (grub-fstest) or build rescue boot
    >> cdrom/floppy images (grub-mkrescue).
    > [snip]
    >> If GRUB2 is used and Windows is the main work OS, it is IMO useful
    >> to maintain the boot manger from Cygwin. If GRUB2 is not used as
    >> boot manger, the tools in the package can still be used to create
    >> rescue disks, tryout the boot shell or even access files in
    >> partitions with non-Windows filesystem.

    > That makes sense.  Objection withdrawn, and +1.

+1

Ciao
  Volker

Re: [ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

[Jari Aalto]

* Fri 2008-03-28 Volker Zell <dr.volker.zell-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
* Message-Id: 7z7ifmyezh.fsf@vzell-de.de.oracle.com
> Charles: +1
> Volker: +1

+1

Jari

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Re: [ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

[Dr. Volker Zell]

>>>>> Volker Zell writes:

    > +1

Builds fine from source and packaging look good.
setup.hint requires line needs in addition the following package
dependencies:

 coreutils sed tar

Some shell scripts in the package use them.

One question regarding your cygwin README:

  Runtime requirements (these or newer):
    cygwin-1.5.25-11
    liblzo2_2-2.02-1
    libncurses8-5.5-3 (for grub-emu only)
    cdrkit-1.1.16-1 (genisoimage for grub-mkrescue only)
    (The cdrkit package is available at http://cygwinports.dotsrc.org/)

Shouldn't cdrkit be in the distro then? Our packages should be
selfcontained. Probably you could ITP cdrkit.

Other then that, GTG
  Volker

Re: [ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

[Christian Franke]

Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> ...
> Builds fine from source and packaging look good.
> setup.hint requires line needs in addition the following package
> dependencies:
>
>  coreutils sed tar
>
> Some shell scripts in the package use them.
>   

Fixed, Thanks.


> One question regarding your cygwin README:
>
>   Runtime requirements (these or newer):
>     cygwin-1.5.25-11
>     liblzo2_2-2.02-1
>     libncurses8-5.5-3 (for grub-emu only)
>     cdrkit-1.1.16-1 (genisoimage for grub-mkrescue only)
>     (The cdrkit package is available at http://cygwinports.dotsrc.org/)
>
> Shouldn't cdrkit be in the distro then? 

Yes It should.


> Our packages should be
> selfcontained. Probably you could ITP cdrkit.
>   

Done :-)


I've uploaded a new build with a minor fix in grub-probe and genisoimage 
added to the dependencies:

http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/grub/grub-1.96-1.tar.bz2
http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/grub/grub-1.96-1-src.tar.bz2
http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/grub/setup.hint

sdesc: "GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2"
ldesc: "GRUB2 is a portable powerful bootloader. This version
of GRUB is based on a cleaner design than its predecessors.
This package contains a version built for the traditional
PC/BIOS architecture."
category: Utils
requires: cygwin coreutils genisoimage liblzo2_2 libncurses8 sed tar
test: 1.96-1

Christian

[GTG] Re: [ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

[Dr. Volker Zell]

>>>>> Christian Franke writes:

    > I've uploaded a new build with a minor fix in grub-probe and
    > genisoimage added to the dependencies:

    > http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/grub/grub-1.96-1.tar.bz2
    > http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/grub/grub-1.96-1-src.tar.bz2
    > http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/grub/setup.hint

    > sdesc: "GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2"
    > ldesc: "GRUB2 is a portable powerful bootloader. This version
    > of GRUB is based on a cleaner design than its predecessors.
    > This package contains a version built for the traditional
    > PC/BIOS architecture."
    > category: Utils
    > requires: cygwin coreutils genisoimage liblzo2_2 libncurses8 sed tar
    > test: 1.96-1


Still builds fine from source, packaging and setup.hint look good.

GTG
  Volker

Re: [GTG] Re: [ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar 31 11:42, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> >>>>> Christian Franke writes:
> 
>     > I've uploaded a new build with a minor fix in grub-probe and
>     > genisoimage added to the dependencies:
> 
>     > http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/grub/grub-1.96-1.tar.bz2
>     > http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/grub/grub-1.96-1-src.tar.bz2
>     > http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/grub/setup.hint
> 
>     > sdesc: "GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2"
>     > ldesc: "GRUB2 is a portable powerful bootloader. This version
>     > of GRUB is based on a cleaner design than its predecessors.
>     > This package contains a version built for the traditional
>     > PC/BIOS architecture."
>     > category: Utils
>     > requires: cygwin coreutils genisoimage liblzo2_2 libncurses8 sed tar
>     > test: 1.96-1
> 
> 
> Still builds fine from source, packaging and setup.hint look good.

+1 and uploaded.


Thanks,
Corinna

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