From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1HAPdB-0007el-SO for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:52:33 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HAPdA-0007e2-51 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:52:32 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HAPd9-0007dk-PR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:52:31 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HAPd9-0007dh-LL for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:52:31 -0500 Received: from [212.85.152.101] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HAPd9-000540-8q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:52:31 -0500 Received: from kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com (kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com [212.85.152.101]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA6DC3CD77478 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:08:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from [??1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C7053CD77474 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:08:55 +0100 (CET) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:52:29 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <1169720852.3386.38.camel@pluto> In-Reply-To: <1169720852.3386.38.camel@pluto> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701261252.29347.okuji@enbug.org> X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.135599, version=0.17.2 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Subject: Re: [PATCH] GNU GRUB program name transformations X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:52:32 -0000 On Thursday 25 January 2007 11:27, Lubomir Kundrak wrote: > From my point of view, the best solution was to use the autoconf macro > AC_ARG_PROGRAM adding program name transformation options, > --program-transform-name, --program-prefix and --program-suffix. Side > effect of this is that it allows you to have multiple instances of GRUB > 2 installed more comfortably. I agree with this change. Thanks. Besides the program names, you might want to change the path to which boot images are installed, i.e. /boot/grub. As long as this directory is shared, GRUB Legacy and GRUB 2 cannot coexist, well, at least not comfortably. I sometimes wonder if it would be better to use a prefix "grub2-" instead of "grub-" for GRUB 2 by default. GRUB Legacy and GRUB 2 are from the same project GRUB, but they are fundamentally very different, so this might reduce some confusion. > The question is whether it is a good thing to transform program names by > default in vendor specific packages (as is done with current version of > pkgsrc package). Alternative solution would be to transform GRUB Legacy > filenames, which, though it might cause some confusion to Legacy users, > seems to be more appropropriate. Does GRUB Legacy support such > transformations in its most recent version? I suggest that you would not change GRUB Legacy for backward compatibility. Okuji