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. Perhaps this suggested change could be queued up to be applied when the file needs to change for some other reason? > (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 ;-) Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
