Re: About grub.cfg{.new,} generation

[appzer0 <appzer0@free.fr>]

Le 12/01/2011 16:20, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko a écrit :
> You can change the "s,x,x" part adding --transform command line option
> to configure. It's useful to change all the pathes used.
>    
>> 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'.
>>
>>      
> grub.cfg shouldn't be packaged at all. It's autogenerated on the target
> system.
>
>    
Thank you very much for the info. I'll stick with the '40_custom' file then.


appzer0