grub (v1) in f18?

[Panu Matilainen]

On 12/07/2012 09:41 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 16:48 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> 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.
>
> If you have *both* installed, grub2 will want to nuke grub every time an
> update shows up, IIRC.

Yum and rpm refuse to install packages which are obsoleted by an 
installed package, so you can't really have both. Unless you first 
install grub2 and then grub with 'rpm --nodeps'...

	- Panu -