| 2018-03-16 18:46:38 |
Scott Moser |
bug |
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added bug |
| 2018-03-16 18:46:47 |
Scott Moser |
bug task added |
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cloud-init (Ubuntu) |
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| 2018-03-16 18:46:57 |
Scott Moser |
bug task added |
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pv-grub-menu (Ubuntu) |
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| 2018-03-16 18:47:25 |
Scott Moser |
cloud-init (Ubuntu): milestone |
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ubuntu-18.04 |
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| 2018-03-16 18:47:32 |
Scott Moser |
pv-grub-menu (Ubuntu): milestone |
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ubuntu-18.04 |
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| 2018-03-16 18:47:52 |
Scott Moser |
bug |
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added subscriber Dan Watkins |
| 2018-03-23 20:21:53 |
Scott Moser |
description |
grub-legacy-ec2 is a binary package provided by Ubuntu cloud-init
source package. I'm hoping that we can finally sunset this thing in
bionic.
Canonical no longer publishes PV images on EC2, so there is no need
for this package in EC2 images speficially.
(http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/W5H33Mb7Pz/)
I'd like to drop this from cloud-init and suggest pv-grub-menu to
anyone looking for equivalent function.
It seems like we would likely want to include pv-grub-menu in the images.
That would be useful to non-aws users of xen (IBM/Softlayer) or users
publishing their own images to amazon.
Some background info:
* grub-legacy-ec2 has really no relevancy to cloud-init. It just got
stuck there within the first year I worked for Canonical because I
didn't really know any better. It would have been better if it was a
separate package from the start. Force of friction left it where it
was.
* grub-legacy-ec2 builds a /boot/grub/menu.lst file for installed kernels
the same way 'update-grub' builds /boot/grub/grub.cfg but does so
without conflicting with grub2 or attempting to install a bootloader.
That boot/grub/menu.lst file is then read (most commonly) by a program
named 'pv-grub'.
* 'pv-grub-menu' that does roughly the
equivalent, but possibly does not have some of the changes that we've
made to grub-legacy-ec2 to properly identify xen kernels. It even
'Provides' grub-legacy-ec2.
* currently ubuntu-server/server seed explicitly includes grub-legacy-ec2
that is the only reverse-depends. |
grub-legacy-ec2 is a binary package provided by Ubuntu cloud-init
source package. I'm hoping that we can finally sunset this thing in
bionic.
Canonical no longer publishes PV images on EC2, so there is no need
for this package in EC2 images speficially.
(http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/W5H33Mb7Pz/)
I'd like to drop this from cloud-init and suggest pv-grub-menu to
anyone looking for equivalent function.
It seems like we would likely want to include pv-grub-menu in the images.
That would be useful to non-aws users of xen (IBM/Softlayer) or users
publishing their own images to amazon.
Some background info:
* grub-legacy-ec2 has really no relevancy to cloud-init. It just got
stuck there within the first year I worked for Canonical because I
didn't really know any better. It would have been better if it was a
separate package from the start. Force of friction left it where it
was.
* grub-legacy-ec2 builds a /boot/grub/menu.lst file for installed kernels
the same way 'update-grub' builds /boot/grub/grub.cfg but does so
without conflicting with grub2 or attempting to install a bootloader.
That boot/grub/menu.lst file is then read (most commonly) by a program
named 'pv-grub'.
* 'pv-grub-menu' that does roughly the
equivalent, but possibly does not have some of the changes that we've
made to grub-legacy-ec2 to properly identify xen kernels. It even
'Provides' grub-legacy-ec2.
* currently ubuntu-server/server seed explicitly includes grub-legacy-ec2
that is the only reverse-depends.
Related bugs:
* bug 1758420: separate grub-legacy-ec2 from cloud-init |
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| 2018-03-27 13:22:53 |
Scott Moser |
bug task deleted |
cloud-init (Ubuntu) |
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| 2018-03-27 13:23:34 |
Scott Moser |
bug task added |
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grub-legacy-ec2 (Ubuntu) |
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| 2018-03-28 13:22:22 |
Scott Moser |
grub-legacy-ec2 (Ubuntu): status |
New |
Triaged |
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| 2018-03-28 13:22:28 |
Scott Moser |
grub-legacy-ec2 (Ubuntu): importance |
Undecided |
Low |
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| 2018-03-28 13:22:36 |
Scott Moser |
pv-grub-menu (Ubuntu): milestone |
ubuntu-18.04 |
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| 2018-03-28 13:22:40 |
Scott Moser |
pv-grub-menu (Ubuntu): status |
New |
Triaged |
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| 2018-03-28 13:22:44 |
Scott Moser |
pv-grub-menu (Ubuntu): importance |
Undecided |
Low |
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| 2018-03-28 13:22:53 |
Scott Moser |
cloud-images: status |
New |
Triaged |
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| 2018-03-28 13:22:56 |
Scott Moser |
cloud-images: importance |
Undecided |
Low |
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| 2018-03-28 13:29:27 |
Scott Moser |
description |
grub-legacy-ec2 is a binary package provided by Ubuntu cloud-init
source package. I'm hoping that we can finally sunset this thing in
bionic.
Canonical no longer publishes PV images on EC2, so there is no need
for this package in EC2 images speficially.
(http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/W5H33Mb7Pz/)
I'd like to drop this from cloud-init and suggest pv-grub-menu to
anyone looking for equivalent function.
It seems like we would likely want to include pv-grub-menu in the images.
That would be useful to non-aws users of xen (IBM/Softlayer) or users
publishing their own images to amazon.
Some background info:
* grub-legacy-ec2 has really no relevancy to cloud-init. It just got
stuck there within the first year I worked for Canonical because I
didn't really know any better. It would have been better if it was a
separate package from the start. Force of friction left it where it
was.
* grub-legacy-ec2 builds a /boot/grub/menu.lst file for installed kernels
the same way 'update-grub' builds /boot/grub/grub.cfg but does so
without conflicting with grub2 or attempting to install a bootloader.
That boot/grub/menu.lst file is then read (most commonly) by a program
named 'pv-grub'.
* 'pv-grub-menu' that does roughly the
equivalent, but possibly does not have some of the changes that we've
made to grub-legacy-ec2 to properly identify xen kernels. It even
'Provides' grub-legacy-ec2.
* currently ubuntu-server/server seed explicitly includes grub-legacy-ec2
that is the only reverse-depends.
Related bugs:
* bug 1758420: separate grub-legacy-ec2 from cloud-init |
grub-legacy-ec2 is a binary package. It maintains /boot/grub/menu.lst
without conflicting with other bootloaders (grub or grub2) and without
any problematic dependencies.
Canonical no longer publishes PV images on EC2, so there is no need
for this package in EC2 images speficially.
(http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/W5H33Mb7Pz/)
I'd like to replace the use of the ubuntu-only pv-grub-legacy-ec2
with the debian-maintained pv-grub-menu for anything looking for equivalent
function. The motivation for this is simply to remove duplicate code.
It seems that official stock Ubuntu images still need to maintain
/boot/grub/menu.lst. This is necessary for non-aws users of xen
(IBM/Softlayer) or users publishing their own images to amazon.
Some background info:
* grub-legacy-ec2 has really no relevancy to cloud-init. It just got
stuck there within the first year I worked for Canonical because I
didn't really know any better. It would have been better if it was a
separate package from the start. Force of friction left it where it
was. In early 2018 we separated the packag out of cloud-init into
its own package (bug 1758420).
* grub-legacy-ec2 builds a /boot/grub/menu.lst file for installed kernels
the same way 'update-grub' builds /boot/grub/grub.cfg but does so
without conflicting with grub2 or attempting to install a bootloader.
That boot/grub/menu.lst file is then read (most commonly) by a program
named 'pv-grub'.
* 'pv-grub-menu' that does roughly the
equivalent, but possibly does not have some of the changes that we've
made to grub-legacy-ec2 to properly identify xen kernels. It even
'Provides' grub-legacy-ec2.
* currently ubuntu-server/server seed explicitly includes grub-legacy-ec2
that is the only reverse-depends.
Related bugs:
* bug 1758420: separate grub-legacy-ec2 from cloud-init
* bug 1756426: not all recommends of ubuntu-server are installaed in lxd (squashfs) image |
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| 2020-10-09 21:40:51 |
Joshua Powers |
cloud-images: status |
Triaged |
Won't Fix |
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