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

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 08:44:32AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> 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.

or maybe we can use "dpkg -s grub" to check if we're upgrading from grub legacy
in preinst?  Not sure if Policy allows that though.

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