Bug#461367: grub: please use ucf for managing user changes to menu.lst

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 01:43:41PM +0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 
> > You can't autorun update-grub in Legacy GRUB.  People will yell at you.
> 
> Why would that be, aside from the very bug that this is trying to fix?

It doesn't matter.  We gave users the promise that they can disable update-grub
by editing /etc/kernel-img.conf.  Many decided to hand-craft their menu.lst
based on that.

> Ubuntu
> is already calling update-grub in the postinst for handling updates from
> dapper (Ubuntu 6.06),

Well, then the situation for Ubuntu is different, and perhaps the decision
that is wrong here would be correct there.  But then again, this is not
very relevant to this bug report.

> If you think grub1 will be obsolete and not ship with lenny,
> then feel free to ignore this patch.  If grub1 will ship with lenny even as
> a non-default bootloader, though, I think this is an enhancement that's
> worth considering, and I would welcome any other feedback you have on the
> patch itself.

The purpose of shipping Legacy GRUB as a non-default bootloader would be, to
allow existing installations maintain their (possibly complex) setup without
having to deal with a GRUB migration at the same time they upgrade to lenny.

Redesigning the way update-grub works doesn't fit well with this purpose.

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Robert Millan

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