Mhwd dependency on update-grub renders system unbootable

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Package mhwd got an additional dependency on update-grub recently. Package update-grub depends on grub (for obvious reasons). Consequently, when you update mhwd you automatically also get grub - even when you don’t need it and don’t want it. People may have reasons why they use a boot manager other than grub.

In my case it was even worse, as the partition detection performed by some update hook of update-grub or grub failed miserably with tons of weird error messages and finally leaving my system in an unbootable state. This must not be!

I was lucky to be able to roll back (thanks to LVM snapshotting). For the time being I live with IgnorePkg = mhwd in /etc/pacman.conf.

Please remove dependency on update-grub from package mhwd.

I’d love to create a GitLab issue here, but my registration request has not been approved yet.

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grub was always required via the mhwd-fb script, it was just missing from dependencies.

What was the username and subject of the email? We receive hundreds of spam emails, so yours probably got buried.

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Sure, we can remove the dependency and use the cmd the script actually does and only when grub is installed.

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This is what should really be done.

Until mhwd lines are changed to use grub-mkconfig the dependency is real.

But it does not need to be.

(and yes again also to ‘whether grub is installed/used’ as well)

Even simple

if command -v grub-mkconfig >/dev/null 2>&1; then

XXXXXX

fi
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Have to check if we have more which needs update-grub …