Bug#586056: grub-pc: update-grub fails with "Invalid parameter"

[Colin Watson]

tags 586056 fixed-upstream
thanks

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 07:01:58PM -0700, root wrote:
> The latest grub introduces a change to the argument processing for
> grub-mkconfig. Now, rather than ignoring unknown arguments, it produces
> an error.

I've fixed this upstream, thanks.  It'll be in the next snapshot.

> A simple way to fix this is to remove the "$@" in
> /usr/sbin/update-grub. Making this change allowed me to configure the
> kernel packages.

This would have broken 'update-grub --help' and 'update-grub --version'.
After some thought, I decided that it was easier to simply undo the new
strictness in grub-mkconfig, rather than e.g. introduce a whole new
option parser to update-grub.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]