Re: Re: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 05:35:06PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:35:42PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > > With the namespace issue fixed and a blacklist to avoid mounting > > partitions in a virtualization environment, would it make sense to > > make grub-pc recommend

Re: Re: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-08 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:35:42PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > With the namespace issue fixed and a blacklist to avoid mounting > partitions in a virtualization environment, would it make sense to > make grub-pc recommend (or even depend on) os-prober again? The problem is not just virtualiz

Re: Re: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-08 Thread Fabian Greffrath
There's already a report open on os-prober to make it really read-only #417407 IIRC Colin Watson already thought in an Ubuntu bug report about implementing a blacklist for os-prober. With the namespace issue fixed and a blacklist to avoid mounting partitions in a virtualization environment, wou

Re: Re: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-08 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 08.09.2009, 16:35 +0200 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: > > There's already a report open on os-prober to make it really read-only > > #417407 > > IIRC Colin Watson already thought in an Ubuntu bug report about > > implementing a blacklist for os-prober. > > With the namespace issue fix

Re: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-07 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Montag, den 07.09.2009, 13:30 +0200 schrieb Vincent Danjean: > Gabor Gombas wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 03:03:40PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > > >> Robert filed already after the upload of grub-legacy a RC bug so it > >> doestn't migrate after the usual 10 days to testing. > >> > >>

Re: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 09:53:30AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 08:32:02PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 03:03:40PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > > Note that we only Suggests: os-prober and not Recommend: it like Ubuntu > > > does because of 491872

Re: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-07 Thread Vincent Danjean
Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 03:03:40PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > >> Robert filed already after the upload of grub-legacy a RC bug so it >> doestn't migrate after the usual 10 days to testing. >> >> Note that we only Suggests: os-prober and not Recommend: it like Ubuntu >> doe

Re: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-07 Thread Frans Pop
Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 10:55:42PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: >> I would not recommend having os-prober installed for this. > > We should make it more efficient and less intrusive, but that's > perfectly feasible in os-prober itself and would be a good idea anyway. My main poin

Re: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 08:32:02PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 03:03:40PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > Note that we only Suggests: os-prober and not Recommend: it like Ubuntu > > does because of 491872 > > So if anyone want to help that we Recommend it again, then help t

Re: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 11:03:10PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 05 September 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > > It has never been intended to be used as part of an update-grub script > > and to be run every time the bootloader configuration is updated > > because a new/updated kernel was installed

Re: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 10:55:42PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Philipp Kern wrote: > > Do you have os-prober installed? > > I would not recommend having os-prober installed for this. os-prober has > always been intended to be run only _once_, mostly when a new system is > installed. It exists as a

Re: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 05 September 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > It has never been intended to be used as part of an update-grub script > and to be run every time the bootloader configuration is updated > because a new/updated kernel was installed or one of the packages that > affect an initrd (udev, mdcfg, lvm,

Re: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-05 Thread Frans Pop
Philipp Kern wrote: > Do you have os-prober installed? I would not recommend having os-prober installed for this. os-prober has always been intended to be run only _once_, mostly when a new system is installed. It exists as a .deb to be used for example after a debootstrap installation of a sys

Re: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-05 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 03:03:40PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > Robert filed already after the upload of grub-legacy a RC bug so it > doestn't migrate after the usual 10 days to testing. > > Note that we only Suggests: os-prober and not Recommend: it like Ubuntu > does because of 491872 > So if

Re: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Samstag, den 05.09.2009, 15:04 +0200 schrieb Hans-J. Ullrich: > Additionally to that, my very own grub configuration with special > settings > (including a self created starting image) was not overtaken. > > So it would be nice, if the maintainers might include an option or > script, > which

Re: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-05 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Samstag 05 September 2009 schrieb Norbert Preining: > Already reported as a bug, but I think that should be discussed here, too. > > Upgrading to grub-pc does not carry over static stanza for Windows, nor > does the os-detecting code find my Windows on sda2. > > Since that is one of the most c

Re: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Samstag, den 05.09.2009, 14:37 +0200 schrieb Norbert Preining: > Already reported as a bug, but I think that should be discussed here, too. > > Upgrading to grub-pc does not carry over static stanza for Windows, nor > does the os-detecting code find my Windows on sda2. > > Since that is one of

Re: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-05 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-09-05, Norbert Preining wrote: > Already reported as a bug, but I think that should be discussed here, too. > > Upgrading to grub-pc does not carry over static stanza for Windows, nor > does the os-detecting code find my Windows on sda2. Do you have os-prober installed? Kind regards, Phi