Bug#462218: Bug#461442: detection of other OSes in update-grub

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 09:28:02AM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 09:55:12AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> >> retitle 461442 please add support for os-prober to detect other OSes in 
> >> update-grub
> >> block 461442 by 462218
> >> tags 462218 + upstream
> >> forwarded 462218 
> >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-01/msg00446.html
> >> thanks
> >
> > What we forwarded is the bug about grub-probe change.  I'm not sure if it makes
> > sense to merge os-prober support in upstream, although I'm open to discussion.
> 
> Ack here.
> 
> os-probe is too Debian specific (or better, linux specific) and I
> think it could be use by other distros but shouldn't be part of grub
> itself.

I was referring to the /etc/grub.d/ glue that Fabian is writing.  If os-prober
is used by other distros, I don't see why not pushing it upstream.

What do you think, Fabian?

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