Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 12:55:26PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> Hi Otavio,
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 04:09:15PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > I'd like to ask you to take a look at grub2 first. If it proves to be
> > difficult to do, I can even push Robert to make an exception for this
> > patch (as we did for e2fsprogs change) however, from d-i POV, the most
> > difficult thing isn't grub but Parted. I want to push 1.8 there and
> > your change need to go there first.
> Will do. But as I said I'd like to have the rest as well as possible in
> place first, so others can test it (even when this means providing
> interim grub-legacy packages out of archive). Switching to grub2 or
> parted will then be a lot easier from a multipath point of view since it
> doesn't involve that many packages anymore.

The e2fsprogs change fixed a critical bug.  I think adding new features is
much different.

Guido, please understand that when you add a new feature to our GRUB Legacy
package, it means:

  1- One more thing we have to maintain with no support from upstream,
     untill we migrate to GRUB 2.

  2- One more item in the list of stoppers that prevent a migration to GRUB 2.

As you can see, the more you have #2, the more difficult it is to solve #1.

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Robert Millan

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