Bug#423217: grub-pc: Should not set itself up completely automatically on installation

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 06:10:46PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 08:57:14PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> >> > > This is only valid for updates, not for new installs.
> >> 
> >> So, you would only have to do this _on upgrades_ of grub-pc, not for new 
> >> installs. This can be tested separately. Still no need to run anything 
> >> for new installs.
> >
> > We could test if we're upgrading grub-pc, or if we're installing new grub-pc
> > but grub was present before (that one is trickier, any ideas?).  It would also
> > be helpful for us to distinguish between the two.
> 
> Maybe grub-probe might be extended to detect if there's any version
> already installed on MBR and report the GRUB version? That might be
> useful for upgrades and our bug reporting script too.

That would require adding versioning information to boot.img.  I suggest asking
grub-devel and see what they think.

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