19.12.2010 14:31, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> On 12/19/2010 12:25 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>> extlinux-update script quietly overwrites /etc/default/extlinux file
>> on each invocation. The file in question, according to the Policy,
>> is a configuration file, so the local changes made to this file should
>> be preserved.
>
> while i agree that the handling of the update of the file could be
> upgraded, user changes are preserved as the file is read in by
> extlinux-update before writing it again, therefore closing the bug.
I discovered this while trying (something like) this:
EXTLINUX_MENU_LABEL="Debian GNU/Linux, node $(cat /var/run/nodeinfo), kernel"
which evaluates to different things (running several
nodes from a common image). But once something calls
update-extlinux on the master node, the variable is
not evaluated anymore on the other nodes.
Besides, I had a few things on that file which tried
to create valid menu system without "help" of the
"themes" - since on our small terminals in server room
I can't use vesamenu which is used by syslinux themes.
This too were overwritten.
Maybe these aren't common usages, but the bug is here
anyway.
/mjt
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