grub (v1) in f18?

[John Reiser]

On 12/07/2012 08:49 AM, Panu Matilainen 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.

Using rpm:  erase grub2 if it is present; install grub [grub1].

There are other tools, too.  rpm2cpio comes to mind.

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