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Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] GRUB 1.99~rc2 released
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KESHAV P.R. |
Subject: |
Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] GRUB 1.99~rc2 released |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:58:14 +0530 |
2011/4/20 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden>:
> On 20.04.2011 12:35, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>>> > A source tarball for the new release can be found at:
>>> >
>>> > http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-1.99~rc2.tar.gz
>> Hi Vladimir,
>>
>> Congratulations.
> Thanks.
>> In case you feel like also distributing xz-compressed files,
>> I've included a simple patch below. Using xz -8e on your
>> release tarball compresses it to nearly half the size of the
>> gzip-compressed tarball:
>>
>> $ du -sh gru*?z
>> :
>> 4.2M grub-1.99~rc2.tar.gz
>> 2.3M grub-1.99~rc2.tar.xz
>>
> xz uploaded. I didn't use the dist target for creating tarball, I just
> do it manually.
> I'll come back to the patch on a latter time. Thanks for contributing.
>
> --
> Regards
> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
>
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> Add `grub-probe' support for the btrfs filesystem, permitting / to
> reside on btrfs as long as /boot is on a filesystem natively supported
> by GRUB
Why does the NEWS in the first post still mention the old btrfs
related info? Thanks for xz tarball.
- Keshav