Edit menu.lst in postinst script

Free Ekanayaka free at agnula.org
Fri Apr 21 06:37:15 UTC 2006


|--==> Otavio Salvador writes:

  OS> Free Ekanayaka <free at agnula.org> writes:
  >>Is there a recommended way to do this in a script?
  >>
  >>Maybe it would be better not to  edit menu.lst directly, and implement
  >>some support  for modularized  configuration  [1] in  update-grub, for
  >>example having a directory
  >>
  >>/boot/grub/menu.lst.d/
  >>
  >>where other packages can drop files with chunks of configuration.

  OS> Would be good if we meet and talk about the new version of update-grub
  OS> and like. By new, you'll need to do some hack for it like sed or so.

  OS> I'll try to find some time to write a draft of my current idea and
  OS> then post it here to us discuss it.

Hi Otavio,

thanks  for you answer,  I'm available on  IRC if you need input about
this. However I did not look into the code of  update-grub, so I'm not
sure what would be needed exactly.

Cheers,

Free





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