Andreas Jaeger write:
On Thursday 27 May 2010 12:43:03 Martin Schlander wrote:
Torsdag den 27. maj 2010 12:32:42 skrev Stephan Kulow:
I would like to drop yast2-repair from 11.3 as this fails now for over half a year without anyone interested.
The main problem with this yast module is that it needs someone who really tests to repair broken setups a lot - and this means a lot of work and very little reputation, because a repair module is only used when something is broken and if it works it's taken for granted and if it fails, it sucks.
As the "fails for 149 days" message on [1] pretty clearly says: there is no one doing this. So I have two options: finding someone who loves repairing or drop it _NOW_. So I'm trying the first option with right this mail, but I need to drop it next week because I need to adapt the boot menu too.
Greetings, Stephan [1] https://build.opensuse.org/project/status?project=openSUSE%3AFactory
SLE/Novell really doesn't need this?
Nope.
Personally I'd be happy if there was just a "repair grub" tool.
There's the repair module of the installation media and that's different to yast2-repair AFAIK,
No, it is not. It use same module. But I think if goal is reduced to repair bootloader, then it really decrease amount of work ( especially if whole functionality is moved to yast2 bootloader, so everything what happen is to start yast2 bootloader with automatic reproposal). But same functionality is also possible with rescue system and run yast2 bootloader (and click on repropose). In general main problem of yast2 repair (which I "maintain") is that it must reflect all new features in opensuse. It is hard to test and because it is part of inst-sys then if it not work in final release it is really hard to be usable. Whole problem is that repair want do it all itself, so changes in other modules doesn't reflect it. In ideal case repair should change to just call two methods from other modules - detect problem and repair problem. Josef -- Josef Reidinger YaST team maintainer of perl-Bootloader, YaST2-Repair, parts of webyast -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org