Document the limited situations in which ostree-grub2 will work in practice

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* Redirect libexecdir to /usr/lib (not /usr/lib/${multiarch}) since we don't * Redirect libexecdir to /usr/lib (not /usr/lib/${multiarch}) since we don't
need multiarch for anything that's installed there, fixing a broken need multiarch for anything that's installed there, fixing a broken
symlink in ostree-grub2 symlink in ostree-grub2
* Document the limited situations in which ostree-grub2 will work in
practice
-- Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:04:34 +0100 -- Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:04:34 +0100

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Package: ostree-grub2 Package: ostree-grub2
Architecture: all Architecture: all
Depends: Depends:
dracut,
${misc:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},
Recommends: Recommends:
grub-efi-amd64 | grub-pc, grub-efi-amd64 | grub-pc,
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disadvantages) of both. disadvantages) of both.
. .
This package contains configuration snippets for using ostree with GRUB 2. This package contains configuration snippets for using ostree with GRUB 2.
This integration currently has some limitations:
.
- the initramfs must have been made using dracut
- the root filesystem must be one that dracut can mount without a root=
command-line argument (an EFI partition with the GUID defined in
the Discoverable Partitions specification)
- /boot must be a separate partition
.
See README.Debian.gz for more details.
Package: ostree-tests Package: ostree-tests
Architecture: any Architecture: any

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This package contains configuration snippets for using ostree with GRUB 2.
This integration currently has some limitations:
- the initramfs must have been made using dracut
- the root filesystem must be one that dracut can mount without a root=
command-line argument (an EFI partition with the GUID defined in
the Discoverable Partitions specification[1])
- /boot must be a separate partition
[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/