On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 15:14 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 12:02 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> On Mar 21, 2012, at 9:17 AM, Peter Jones wrote: > >> > >> > We definitely want to keep using grubby instead of running grub2-mkconfig and > >> > clobbering whatever's in your config file every time. > >> > >> *shrug* I think grubby makes for an increasingly cluttered grub.cfg. > >> With the latest behavior I'm seeing with 2.00~beta2's grub2-mkconfig, > >> it cleans up after itself nicely. The grub.cfg pretty clearly > >> indicates it can be clobbered, by design. > > > > yeah, I have to admit I get the feeling we're kind of swimming against > > the tide, now. I'm not sure it would be so terrible to just decide to go > > with the upstream design, run grub2-mkconfig any time grub2.cfg needs > > updating, and tell people to do customization in the /etc/grub.d stuff > > as upstream intends. > > > > The whole point of going with grub2 was to get closer to upstream and > > reduce our maintenance burden, right? grubby feels like a substantial > > chunk of maintenance burden too. > > grubby wraps multiple bootloader configurations. grub, grub2, yaboot, and > possibly one other. While it might be reasonable for it to just run > grub2-mkconfig if it detects grub2 installed, it's still needed for the > other bootloaders that are used in Fedora. Otherwise the kernel spec > would need to handle all of this directly instead of calling grubby. That > sounds like a nightmare. Yeah, pjones reminded me of that on IRC, I'd kind of forgotten. Although, strictly, what we call in the kennel spec is new-kernel-pkg, right? And that's what looks at all the bootloader config files and decides what to do. So I guess it would be new-kernel-pkg which we would change to call grub2-mkconfig instead of grubby when it finds a grub2 config. If we wanted to do that. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
