Bug#548600: grub-common: Support for howmany option in grub2

[Miroslav Jezbera]

Package: grub-common
Version: 1.97~beta3-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Hello,
I think, that howmany is good feature in grub-legacy. This option specifies
number of kernels, that user wants to have in boot menu. I have created small
patch, that adds support for this to 10_linux. There should be variable
GRUB_HOW_MANY propagated from /etc/default/grub (my patch don't do this).
Kernel and it's rescue variant is counted as one kernel.

Thanks in advance

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30
Locale: LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii  base-files             5.0.0             Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  libc6                  2.9-25            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.9-5           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libncurses5            5.7+20090803-2    shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
ii  os-prober                     1.28       utility to detect other OSes on a 

Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
pn  multiboot-doc                 <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information

-- 
Jezz
mail:   jezz at hkfree.org
jabber: jezz at njs.netlab.cz
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