From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JcKYN-0003KF-9i for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:11:31 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JcKYL-0003Ip-AU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:11:29 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JcKYK-0003HK-0V for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:11:28 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JcKYJ-0003H6-NW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:11:27 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JcKYJ-0006nv-E5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:11:27 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JcKYF-0001hD-A7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:11:26 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JcKXe-0004IB-Mt for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:10:46 +0100 Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:10:46 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080320131046.GA16344@thorin> References: <20080212005113.nlirwi2ko4gkg80s@webmail.spamcop.net> <20080212113451.GB19144@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20080212113451.GB19144@thorin> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Rename update-grub to grub-update? 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: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:11:29 -0000 On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:34:51PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:51:13AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > Hello! > > > > All grub binaries installed in $prefix/bin and $prefix/sbin start with > > "grub-" except mbchk and update-grub. mbchk is probably not meant to > > be grub specific, but update-grub is. > > > > I think it would be logical to rename update-grub to grub-update. > > Objections? > > I picked this name for historical reasons, since it was aimed at replacing > a Debian-specific script that performed the same functionality. > > Calling it "update-grub" has a big advantage: for many GRUB Legacy users, > when seeing a script called like this they will instantly know what it > does. > > That aside, I agree the name is quite unfortunate. What would you think of > postponing this untill GRUB Legacy has been replaced? It's already a big leap > to migrate from GRUB Legacy to GRUB 2; I suggest we don't make it bigger yet. On a second thought, this wouldn't be much of an issue if Debian can have its own "update-grub" which wraps around "grub-mkconfig" or whatever you want to call it. Additionally, this would allow us to change the CLI to something that doesn't hardcode /boot/grub/grub.cfg and provides greater flexibility, e.g.: grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg which is also useful for Debian. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)