Bug#773004: grub-pc: annoys with EFI debconf prompt

Steve McIntyre steve at einval.com
Sat Dec 13 01:14:18 UTC 2014


On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 12:31:29AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:22:04PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>>Package: grub-pc
>>Version: 2.02~beta2-18
>>Severity: minor

Thorsten, silly question: at what point did this show up? During a
normal installation of grub-pc, or doing a reconfigure?

<snip>

>>This belongs into the grub-efi package or so, methinks,
>>but most certainly not in anything that would be installed
>>on a nōn-EFI system.
>
>Yes, you're correct. This didn't show up in my testing of that
>change. :-( Looks like I've screwed something up. Looking now...

Obvious quick fix would be to only ask this question for grub-*efi*
packages:

diff --git a/debian/config.in b/debian/config.in
index d2afbcb..27775c3 100644
--- a/debian/config.in
+++ b/debian/config.in
@@ -73,5 +73,9 @@ esac
 
 db_input ${priority} grub2/linux_cmdline || true
 db_input medium grub2/linux_cmdline_default || true
-db_input low grub2/force_efi_extra_removable || true
+case @PACKAGE@ in
+  grub-*efi*)
+    db_input low grub2/force_efi_extra_removable || true
+  ;;
+esac
 db_go

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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