On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 09:29:28AM -0800, John Reiser wrote:
> Yes, I think we're both trying to say the same thing:
there's no point
> having 'grub' in the repositories as its not installable or usable in
> practise. The same goes for bunch of other obsoleted packages as well.
yum is not the only tool available.
But it is the package manager for the distro. More importantly, it's not
really about yum. *Any* package manager which respects what the packages say
("grub2 obsoletes grub") will do the same.
Using rpm: erase grub2 if it is present; install grub [grub1].
And then the next time you do a general package upgrade, presto, you've got
grub2 again. This is a kludge, basically, akin to installing firefox-12.0-1
from the F17 release tree even though firefox-17.0 is F17 updates.
There are other tools, too. rpm2cpio comes to mind.
Really???
And sure, you can build grub from source. But we're getting pretty far off
from being actually _Fedora_.
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