Robert Millan schrieb:
I was referring to the /etc/grub.d/ glue that Fabian is writing. If os-prober
is used by other distros, I don't see why not pushing it upstream.
What do you think, Fabian?
For me personally it makes no difference if the script ends up in Debian
or upstream.
However, the first thing the script does is
if [ -x "`which os-prober 2>/dev/null`" ] ; then (...)
so it won't hurt anybody without os-prober installed.
I have to stress that my script is currently (well, as soon as #462218
is closed) only able to add chainloaded partitions. For all other kinds
of Linux/Hurd installations it would need to remount the partitions to
find out where the linux-/initrd-images reside. This is something I want
to avoid, because the partitions have allready been mounted by os-prober
and I don't want to duplicate it's code for this purpose. Maybe
os-prober's output can be modified to be more verbose about other
Linux/Hurd systems it detects. However, we will be able to detect the
majority of preinstalled OSes from Redmond. ;)
I think, we should keep the script in the Debian package for the time
beeing. Before it's included upstream we should see to get os-prober
included in other distributions and make sure we can properly add other
Linux/Hurd installations to grub.cfg based on os-prober's output.
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