From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Mtp8Y-0001wG-Vh for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:53:58 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mtp8X-0001vJ-Qt for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:53:57 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mtp8T-0001rG-7W for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:53:57 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34343 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mtp8T-0001rC-2C for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:53:53 -0400 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:47325 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mtp8S-0005eF-Eb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:53:52 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mtp8M-00059i-Ub for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:53:47 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mtp8M-00050Y-Au for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:53:46 +0200 Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 22:53:46 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20091002205346.GB19103@thorin> References: <20090927180451.GA23688@titan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090927180451.GA23688@titan> 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/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: Support for howmany option in grub2 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, 02 Oct 2009 20:53:58 -0000 On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:04:51PM +0200, jezz@hkfree.org wrote: > Hello, > I am using Debian GNU/Linux as my primary system. As a loader I am using GRUB. > Actually I have upgraded to GRUB2. I don't know, if it was feature of original > (legacy) GRUB or it was functionality provided by debian scripts (update-grub), > for generating menu.lst. There was feature - howmany. This option specifies > number of kernels, that user wants to have in boot menu. Script, that modifies > menu.lst, use this variable. I like this feature, because I have usually more > kernels, but I want to see only last two versions in GRUB menu. I have created > patch, that add support for this to /etc/grub.d/10_linux. I have created this > patch against version shipped with Debian (1.97~beta3-1) - I don't know if > there are some Debian specific modifications. Also there should be variable > GRUB_HOW_MANY propagated from /etc/default/grub (my patch don't do > this). > Kernel and it's rescue variant is counted as one kernel. > > I have already reported this bug to Debian BTS: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548600 Does anyone else think we want an option for this? It seems like "feature creep". -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."