grub (v1) in f18?

[Chris Murphy]

On Dec 6, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 10:02:20PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 03:34:23PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
>>> The grub2 package obsoletes grub, so there's no way to actually _use_ the
>>> older package, but it's still in the tree. Is there a reason?
>> Yes, virtualization.
> 
> So, yeah, that's actually what I want to do. But since 2011, the grub2
> package _obsoletes_ grub, which means that yum and friends will happily
> substitute grub2 for grub on every opportunity (by default) including
> building images with appliance-creator.

I haven't experienced this with F16, F17 or so far F18. What I'm seeing is:

yum install/update grub gets me grub legacy.
yum install/update grub-efi gets me grub legacy efi.
yum install/update grub2 gets me grub2.
yum install/update grub2-efi gets me grub2 efi.



Chris Murphy