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

[Otavio Salvador]

Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com> writes:

> 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?

os-probe would be hard to get accepted since it couldn't be relicensed
to FSF without much hassle.

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