update-grub2

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Mon Oct 16 17:14:45 CEST 2006


[ Dropping CC to upstream for Debian-specific discussion ]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:53:03AM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> >> It looks great! It's simple and flexible.
> >> 
> >> Robert, we could start to implement it on Debian side to start to grab
> >> "plugins" for other uses. We should also check what's the current
> >> feature set of update-grub and start a campain inside of Debian to
> >> grab the need "plugins" to don't have regressions for end user.
> >
> > I think we should wait to see what upstream (CCed) says.  If upstream GRUB
> > includes this feature, then it's an upstream issue for the other projects as
> > well.
> 
> Well, more or less.
> 
> If it's accepted by upstream, better! Otherwise we'll need to provide
> a upgrade path from Etch to Etch+1 and then we'll need something like
> that.

There's not enough time..  I was thinking that we can release etch with the
current update-grub, and then prepare the replacement in etch+1.

As for upgrade path, what do you mean?  To the user it's mostly the same.

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