Hi,

sorry for the delay in following up :(

* Ryan Finnie [Sun Jun 01, 2014 at 10:11:55AM +0000]:

> The Grml-invented loopback.cfg has become a de facto standard, used in a
> number of other Linux distributions on their ISOs.  This is great,
> though I wanted a way to easily take a directory of compatible ISOs and
> build grub2 stanzas.  I've got an open ITP (#693774) for a package named
> grub-loopback-iso, but recently found that the grml-rescueboot package
> is perfectly capable of booting non-Grml loopback.cfg-compatible ISOs,
> though you wouldn't know that from the package.

> I'd like to propose genericizing the package, renaming it to and merging
> it with my generic grub-loopback-iso, while providing a transtional
> grml-rescueboot package.  The grub.d hook itself will continue to
> provide backwards compatibility with existing grml-rescueboot
> configurations (/boot/grml and /etc/default/grml-rescueboot).

> A proposed merge against:
>     http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-rescueboot.git
> is at:
>     https://github.com/rfinnie/grub-loopback-iso

> A more thorough explanation of the changes is in the commit message.

> (Full disclosure: I am the author of Finnix, technically a competitor to
> Grml, so genericizing this package is in my/Finnix's best interests.)

This is a great idea and assuming that debian-cd would get support
for loopback.cfg too (see #759744) this would be another perfect
match.

So yes, I definitely appreciate seeing grml-rescueboot getting
opened for other distributions/derivatives.

Any objections against keeping grub-loopback-iso at the same place
(git.grml.org + https://github.com/grml/grml-rescueboot)?

Disclaimer: I haven't had the time yet to give it a real-life test,
but I'm definitely planning to do so. :)

Thanks!

regards,
-mika-

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature

Reply via email to