Bug#748302: Add Xen parameters to /etc/default/grub

[Paul Muster]

On 16.05.2014 15:58, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 10:33 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 09:35:48AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 00:09 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>>>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:30:04PM +0200, Paul Muster wrote:

>>>>> Please add placeholders/examples for Xen kernel config to /etc/default/grub

>>>> I would rather not change /etc/default/grub except when absolutely
>>>> necessary, because doing so causes configuration file prompts for
>>>> everyone.
>>>
>>> Everyone or just people who have local modifications?
>>
>> Sadly it winds up being significantly more people than I'd like because
>> the maintainer script code for handling /etc/default/grub has lots of
>> terrible stuff in it for historical reasons.  And of course editing
>> /etc/default/grub to add some kernel arguments is very common, even
>> among people who don't really know what they're doing thanks to various
>> web guides
>
> That makes sense, thanks for explaining.

Well, do we really need to care about 'people who don't really know what 
they're doing'?

> Perhaps this suggested change could be queued up to be applied when the
> file needs to change for some other reason?

Or is there a possibility to "deliver" different files a) at first 
package install and b) at updates?

>>   (the number of bugs I've seen that were due to Unicode quotes
>> in /etc/default/grub thanks to copying and pasting from web pages would
>> probably startle you).
>
> Almost nothing about this sort of thing surprises me any more ;-)

Some days ago I learnt a new (to me) English saw: "If you make something 
idiot proof, someone will just make a better idiot." ;-)


Greetings,

Paul

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