Bug#508834: update grub runs grub-probe -t fs /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2?

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Donnerstag, den 31.12.2009, 20:31 -0500 schrieb Jim Bray:
> (Note: the various copies of
> transform="s,x,x,"
> 
> in the scripts do nothing, and can be replaced with
> 
> transform='#'
> 
> or the various "|sed ${transform}" could be eliminated. Just garbage, 
> apparently.)

If you don't use an old i386 this `garbage' shouldn't matter at all.
If you don't want to have it, the proper fix belongs in autoconf.
It's used for these ./configure options, generated by the AC_ARG_PROGRAM
autoconf macro:

Program names:
  --program-prefix=PREFIX            prepend PREFIX to installed program names
  --program-suffix=SUFFIX            append SUFFIX to installed program names
  --program-transform-name=PROGRAM   run sed PROGRAM on installed program names

I know that at least the Fedora GRUB 2 packages uses this. So we just
can't remove that feature upstream. And I don't think it's worth to
diverge from upstream for this just to save a few CPU cycles.


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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer