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Hello,

I'd like to have some info about the 'grub-mkconfig script'. I'm 
packaging grub 1.98.

Tell me if I'm wrong ; this script generates a '/boot/grub/grub.cfg.new' 
then it renames it to '/boot/grub/grub.cfg'.
I see a line saying:  echo /boot/grub | sed "s,x,x" ; what is it used 
for? The sed command does not change anything here, I think.

The problem is that slackware and other distributions use a "*.new" 
renaming pattern when upgrading packages, in order to not overwrite 
important config files. Then the user has to deal with these .new files, 
rename, overwrite or toss away.

If 'grub-mkconfig' is really doing what I think it does, then it would 
just overwrite this important file, '/boot/grub/grub.cfg.new'.

Sorry for my english.


appzer0