FS#7404 - Grub seems to depend on sed

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Emil Renner Berthing (Esmil) - Saturday, 09 June 2007, 18:34 GMT
Last edited by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Tuesday, 26 February 2008, 13:45 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.05 Duke
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

grub-install doesn't seem to work without sed installed, so perhaps it ought to be added to its dependencies.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Tuesday, 26 February 2008, 13:45 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  fixed in -11
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 10 June 2007, 08:55 GMT
grub is in base, base packages should depend on what they need IMHO.
Comment by Emil Renner Berthing (Esmil) - Sunday, 10 June 2007, 11:43 GMT
My opinion probably doesn't matter much, but I thoroughly agree. This is one of those things that take almost no effort, but makes Arch a really nice experience for all us hobby-hackers who likes to mess around with a system we're in full control of. For those people who just want something that works, there is already one Ubuntu IMHO.

If you decide to sort out the dependencies, grub-install requires cmp too, and hence diffutils.
Comment by Michael Towers (gradgrind) - Tuesday, 16 October 2007, 08:19 GMT
After the reorganization (core) - if not before - diffutils is not in base, so grub-install will not work in a base-only installation.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 16 October 2007, 08:26 GMT
imho diff should be in base, as it's a very important package that is required for many things. On distributions like debian it's an essential package that will make apt-get shout at you when you try to remove it.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 09 February 2008, 16:57 GMT
diffutils is now in base so the second part of this report (after reopening) is fixed,
it was closed as "Won't fix: packages in base are assumed to be installed anyway)",
so can it be closed now, or we want to add sed and diffutils to depends?

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