Le lundi 27 novembre 2006 18:00, Robert Millan a écrit : > No comments? Are you interested in getting this into the main grub tree? > In my opinion, since update-grub needs a rewrite it's a good oportunity to > merge this now and unify grub.cfg generation across distributions > (something that wasn't possible with the old update-grub because of > copyright issues). > > That said, if you don't like the idea then we could proceed adding it in > debian, but that might close the door to merging in the future (maintaining > the script in debian ourselves implies accepting contributions from many > people without any paperwork arrangements).
Personally, the way update-grub works on all my applicable debian installs suits me perfectly. But as Declan said, it's bad to overwrite the file... I wonder if it could become just a generation of a file which would be included (or not) by the "main" config file. If that main config file does not exist at all, it could be generated - unless we consider that a user might want not to have a config file at all. I don't know if the current scripting allows this, I haven't put an eye on it for a looong time. Another idea, which I just had while writing this mail : What about putting the .d directory in /boot(/grub) and implementing a mechanism in grub to be able to handle such configuration directory ? My idea is about multi-OS (multi-distro, whatever) users, which have to privilege one among and merge the boot possibilities - by hand most probably. If this offers a common way of storing boot entries, it can solve that problem. In my idea, I would go even further by suggesting a non grub-specific way of doing so, allowing to switch bootloaders which would support such configuration layouts. But I guess few people are ready to spend much effort in making boot loaders compatible one with the other... -- Vincent Pelletier
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