On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 02:07:25PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes: > > Ethan> just overwriting it. this is the Right Way to do a > Ethan> bootloader IMO, that way you don't have any possiblity of a > Ethan> grub package upgrade breaking or altering your current > Ethan> bootloader setup. > > You mean by not doing the potentially dangerous bit (the upgrade step) > unless the administrator manually types in the command? yes, i mean the mere act of apt-get dist-upgrade upgrading the grub .deb will not actually make any changes to the active bootloader. since the only files touched are in /usr/share/grub [1] which are not used. the active files which are used in /boot/grub are never touched by the debian package. [1] btw shouldn't that be /usr/lib/grub? these are not exactly archetecture independent files... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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