Bug 15514 - grub2 should recommend the xorriso package
Summary: grub2 should recommend the xorriso package
Status: RESOLVED OLD
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 4
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Barry Jackson
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Blocks: 416
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Reported: 2015-03-18 07:41 CET by Ole Reier Ulland
Modified: 2015-09-29 12:51 CEST (History)
2 users (show)

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Source RPM: grub2 59.1.mga4
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Description Ole Reier Ulland 2015-03-18 07:41:51 CET
Steps to Reproduce:
1. xorriso-package not installed
2. grub2-mkrescue -o /tmp/grub2-rescue.iso
3. Observ: Enabling BIOS support ...
Your xorriso doesn't support `--grub2-boot-info'. Some features are disabled. 
Please use xorriso 1.2.9 or later.
/usr/bin/grub2-mkrescue: line 752: xorriso: command not found
4. install xorriso
5. grub2-mkrescue -o /tmp/grub2-rescue.iso
6. The iso-file is made

I believe the rpm-package with grub2-mkrescue should be listed as dependent on the rpm-package xorriso. At least my fresh installment of Mageia 4.1 x64 installed grub2 without installing xorriso.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Thierry Vignaud 2015-03-18 08:53:17 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => zen25000

Comment 1 Barry Jackson 2015-03-18 12:37:15 CET
Indeed.
Fixed in svn - revision 818756
Thanks for reporting

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 2 Barry Jackson 2015-03-18 12:38:42 CET
Oops - not yet fixed for Mga4

Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
Resolution: FIXED => (none)

Comment 3 Thomas Backlund 2015-04-10 01:46:48 CEST
And dont even try to push a hard requires to mga4, it will unnecessarily bloat installs as xorriso have a lots of recursive deps...

I've switched Cauldron package to Recommends: as a hard require screws up live builds...

CC: (none) => tmb

Thierry Vignaud 2015-04-30 21:31:31 CEST

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Blocks: (none) => 416

Thierry Vignaud 2015-06-02 14:52:55 CEST

Summary: grub2 should be dependent on the xorriso-package => grub2 should recommend the xorriso package

Comment 4 Samuel Verschelde 2015-09-21 13:21:05 CEST
Mageia 4 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2015-09-19. It is is no longer 
maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug 
fix updates.

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Comment 5 Barry Jackson 2015-09-29 12:51:37 CEST
As per #4

Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD


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