Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")
On 05/26/2010 03:36 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> That works for now; but if a package upgrade for extlinux is ever
> downloaded, I'm afraid that new versions of the hook scripts will
> be copied into these directories which are marked executable, and
> my hand-made configuration file will get wiped out. I would suggest
> testing the existence of some flag file. If the flag file exists,
> then invoking update-extlinux should be bypassed. Thus, if the user
> doesn't want his hand-made /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf file to be
> tampered with, he can create that flag file via "touch" and the hook
> script will not run update-extlinux. Strictly speaking, this is
> an enhancement request.
as of current git, you can now use EXTLINUX_UPDATE=false in
/etc/default/extlinux to prevent having update-extlinux do anything.
> Second, it is important that any script run as a hook script not
> produce any output at all to standard output. I found that out the
> hard way when I was writing my own hook scripts for use with lilo.
> That's because they run under debconf, which has redirected standard
> output for its own purposes. Thus, anything written to standard
> output is (1) never seen by the user and (2) has a good chance of
> messing up debconf, which is examining the output. The invocation
> of update-extlinux should have a redirection on it to redirect
> output to standard error. For example,
>
> update-extlinux >&2
none of the hooks is doing this (initramfs-tools, grub, etc), might
needs further convincing.
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