yum / grub[2] problem ?

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 12:26 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> With todays f16 yum update, first I saw this..
> 
> ERROR with transaction check vs depsolve:
> grub2 conflicts with (installed) grub-1:0.97-80.fc16.x86_64
> 
> Which I got around by doing --exclude=grub2
> When everything else had updated, I did another yum update.
> This is what it did..

Looks like your mirror has grub -82, which is one of the bad builds (-81
and -82 got the phrasing of the Obsoletes: statement for grub-efi
wrong).

The 'working' builds (so far as we know) are grub2 1.99-9 and grub
0.97-83: if your mirror doesn't have those, wait till you do, or set up
a side repo.

> So now I have grub, and grub2 installed. I guess this isn't intended ?
> Should I rpm -e grub ?

What we 'intend' to happen is for you to wind up with both grub-efi and
grub2 installed, but in fact you only need one or the other - grub2 if
you boot BIOS, grub-efi if you boot EFI.

> Additionally, I have a 0 byte /boot/grub2/grub.cfg, so grub2-mkconfig
> isn't getting run during an update. Should it be ?

That's not implemented yet. Spot filed a report requesting it, pjones
says he will look at it soon:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=745246

> Or is the plan for yum update'd systems to continue using grub1 ?

For now this is what should happen - even with the grub *package*
removed, grub will be installed in the MBR (or boot sector) until you
overwrite it and grub's config will be present in /boot, so grub will
continue to work. You can manually migrate to grub2 any time you choose
by doing grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg then
grub2-install /dev/foo .
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