Re: update-alternatives vs. dpkg-divert [was: Re: rt kernel and nouveau]
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Andrei POPESCU
<andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mi, 28 mar 12, 11:08:13, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Andrei POPESCU
>> <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Ma, 27 mar 12, 16:45:39, Tom H wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Andrei POPESCU
>> >> <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> On Jo, 22 mar 12, 17:28:26, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> >>>>> Getting grub2 to use a different command-line option for each entry left
>> >>>>> as an exercise for the reader.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I ended up locally diverting /usr/sbin/update-grub (replacing it with a
>> >>>> symlink to /bin/true) and managing /boot/grub/grub.cfg by hand.
>> >>>
>> >>> I think this is the only feature of grub1 that I missed.
>> >>
>> >> Why can't you do the same with grub2?
>> >
>> > Not implemented. I remember some discussion about it (probably in
>> > upstream BTS, for Debian I can only find #601940), but apparently
>> > nothing came out of it.
>>
>> Do you mean this?
>
> No, I was talking about
>
>> >>>>> Getting grub2 to use a different command-line option for each entry left
>> >>>>> as an exercise for the reader.
OK, thanks. The other link didn't make sense.
>> (I don't know enough about u-a to understand why
>> "--force" is needed...)
>
> It's because you're using the wrong tool for this job ;)
LOL
> Alternatives are used when more files can provide the same functionality
> (e.g you can choose if the symlink /usr/bin/editor points to
> /usr/bin/nano or /usr/bin/vim). The output of 'ls -l /etc/alternatives'
> might be interesting for you.
>
> By "locally diverting" Sven meant using dpkg-divert(8) which is the
> correct tool for what he ended up doing.
OK, thanks.
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