Bug#512968: grub-pc: Fails to install when gnumach is installed

[Guillem Jover]

Hi!

On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 23:49:14 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 03:31:37PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > When gnumach is installed grub-pc fails to install due to at least the
> > missing function make_system_path_relative_to_its_root. Also afterwards
> > it aborts if it cannot find the needed stuff to successfully boot a Hurd
> > system, which should not be fatal on non Hurd systems. The attached
> > patch fixes those problems.
> > 
> > For upstream submission you might want to replace the dpkg invokation
> > with uname.

> I think I'll just refrain from installing those files on systems where
> they're not useful.  The generated boot entry is going to be system-specific
> anyway, so there's no use in providing them.

Hmm, thinking about it now that makes sense, as those scripts seem to be
designed to work only for the host system (from the README it says
10_* are for native entries). But then the users lose the nicely set
default entry for other systems, which in the Hurd case is known to be
painful to get right and/or copy paste from random places.

Anyway, yes, I guess the best option is to not install non-native 10_*
scripts, and add support for the Hurd and others into the os-prober one,
which should be more generic, and be able to handle such cases better.

regards,
guillem