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  • From: Geoffrey Derber <Geoffrey.Derber AT Trinity.edu>
  • To: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • Cc: Source Mage - Grimoire <sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] Reducing the size of the grimoire
  • Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:56:46 -0600

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Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
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| What exactly do those patches for grub do? It works fine without any
| patches.
|

~From my more updated Build file:

# Patches
# The patches were obtained from Red Hat

# for config file related changes
patch -p1 < $SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/grub-0.93-configfile.patch || die
patch -p1 < $SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/grub-0.90-symlinkmenulst.patch || die

# for grub-install bits
patch -p1 < $SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/grub-0.90-install.in.patch
patch -p1 < $SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/grub-0.90-installcopyonly.patch
patch -p1 < $SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/grub-0.90-addsyncs.patch

# miscellaneous build related patches
# link angainst curses statically
patch -p1 < $SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/grub-0.90-staticcurses.patch
# compatabliity for automake 1.6
patch -p1 < $SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/grub-0.92-automake16.patch

# patches submitted upstream and pending approval
# change the message so that how to accept changes is clearer (#53846)
patch -p0 < $SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/grub-0.93-endedit.patch
# support large disks (#80980, #63848)
patch -p0 < $SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/grub-0.93-largedisk.patch

# for features proposed but not accepted upstream
# add support for appending kernel arguments
patch -p1 < $SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/grub-0.90-append.patch
# add support for lilo -R-esque select a new os to boot into
patch -p1 < $SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/grub-0.91-bootonce.patch

# for graphics mode related patches
patch -p1 < $SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/grub-0.93-graphics.patch
patch -p1 < $SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/grub-0.91-splashimagehelp.patch
patch -p1 < $SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/grub-0.93-graphics-bootterm.patch

# for miscellaneous little things
# support for non-std devs (eg cciss, etc)
patch -p1 < $SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/grub-0.93-special-device-names.patch
# support for building on x86_64
patch -p1 < $SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/grub-0.92-hammer.patch

Some were better documented than others. Some are more likely to be
needed than others. For exmaple, without the configfile patch, grub
0.93 won't compile at all. The one's I'm trying to get to work is the
splashimage.

Geoff
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