Karmic Alpha 6/Beta

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Fri Oct 2 17:05:52 UTC 2009


On 10/02/2009 09:50 AM, NoOp wrote:
> On 10/02/2009 07:51 AM, Siegfried-A. Gevatter wrote:
>> 2009/10/2 David Curtis <dcurtis at uniserve.com>:
>>> If it is true that there are packages/sets of packages that will not
>>> get installed through 'apt-get dist-upgrade' during the development
>>> cycle
>> 
>> GRUB 2 is a special case. It is only (automatically) installed on a
>> clean install, and not on upgrades, given the risk of this operation.
>> 
> 
> On my fully updated Alpha 6, I'm showing:
> 
> $ apt-cache policy grub-common
> grub-common:
>   Installed: 1.97~beta3-1ubuntu6
>   Candidate: 1.97~beta3-1ubuntu6
>   Version table:
>  *** 1.97~beta3-1ubuntu6 0
> 
> Which, according to this, seems to be the latest?
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2
> 
> And of course I no longer have menu.lst, but /boot/grub/grub.cfg &
> /etc/default/grub etc., as well.

Ah... nevermind. I understand the upgrade issue :-)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Grub2Testing

Thanks folks.







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