From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Mb9Uq-0008I0-BG for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:47:48 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mb9Un-0008Fz-NI for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:47:45 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mb9Ui-0008Bj-Vi for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:47:45 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60225 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mb9Ui-0008BX-Qm for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:47:40 -0400 Received: from smarthost02.mail.zen.net.uk ([212.23.3.141]:55363) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mb9Ui-00035e-EX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:47:40 -0400 Received: from [82.69.40.219] (helo=riva.pelham.vpn.ucam.org) by smarthost02.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Mb9Uj-0007vr-JL for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:47:41 +0000 Received: from cjwatson by riva.pelham.vpn.ucam.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) for grub-devel@gnu.org id 1Mb9Uh-0002Qi-00; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:47:39 +0100 Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:47:39 +0100 From: Colin Watson To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090812084739.GA9329@riva.ucam.org> References: <20090810161040.GA16306@thorin> <20090812004334.GD8561@thorin> <20090812084139.GU11691@riva.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090812084139.GU11691@riva.ucam.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Originating-Smarthost02-IP: [82.69.40.219] X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: RFC: 1.97 roadmap 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: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:47:46 -0000 On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:41:39AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 02:43:34AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 07:10:12PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > > What about savedefault? Which savedefault way you prefer? > > > > I think it would be good to have. But I haven't followed on the savedefault > > discussion, I just know it would build upon the existing envfile support. > > I thought Vladimir's general approach in > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-06/msg00002.html was > just fine (nice and simple, no fancy event handling, builds on existing > facilities), although I agree with the suggestions from Robert/Pavel > that the save step should be a single command/function. Oh, Pavel said in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-06/msg00190.html that we should use text rather than numbers. I assume that he meant that the saved entry should actually be the menu item name? If so I tend to agree; I'm pretty sure that we have a long-standing bug somewhere to the effect that if you have a bunch of distribution kernels at the top of the menu and another operating system at the bottom, then it's a pain to declare the other OS as the default because every time new distribution kernels are installed the menu indices change. -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]