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

[Otavio Salvador]

Frans Pop <elendil at planet.nl> writes:

> On Friday 11 May 2007 15:52, you wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> Why would it require versioning info? You can just check if the _package_ 
> is being upgraded, can't you?

Well, yes and no. The package being installed doesn't mean it's
installed on MBR. You can even have grub installed and use lilo.

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