Bug#570119: grub-common: grub-mkrescue has very different calling conventions on powerpc than on amd64 or x86

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

tag 570119 fixed-upstream
thanks
On 16.02.2010 19:02, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Package: grub-common
> Version: 1.98~20100115-1
> Severity: normal
>
> On grub-common on i386 and amd64, the synopsis for grub-mkrescue is:
>
>    grub-mkrescue [OPTION] SOURCE...
>
> on powerpc, the synopsis appears to be:
>
>    grub-mkrescue [OPTION] output_image
>
> This makes it difficult to invoke grub-mkrescue consistently across
> supported architectures (e.g. in scripts to build rescue CDs, etc)
>
> note: the current grub-mkrescue synopsis used to be used on i386 and
> amd64, but it appears to have changed in the last few months.  I'm not
> sure why powerpc didn't change at the same time.
>
> If there could be one standard calling convention across
> architectures, that would make the tool much more useful.
>
> Thanks for grub!
>
>            --dkg
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>    APT prefers testing
>    APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
> ii  base-files              5.1              Debian base system miscellaneous f
> ii  dpkg                    1.15.5.6         Debian package management system
> ii  gettext-base            0.17-8           GNU Internationalization utilities
> ii  install-info            4.13a.dfsg.1-5   Manage installed documentation in
> ii  libc6                   2.10.2-2         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libfreetype6            2.3.11-1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
> ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
>
> Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
> ii  os-prober                     1.35       utility to detect other OSes on a
>
> Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
> pn  grub-emu<none>      (no description available)
> ii  multiboot-doc                 0.97-59    The Multiboot specification
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko