From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Pd3Lf-00064J-4K for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:14:59 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52391 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pd3LQ-0005oV-ND for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:14:57 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pd3CO-0008Qw-Kk for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:05:25 -0500 Received: from smtp5-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.5]:36259) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pd3CN-0008Pd-S2 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:05:24 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.10] (unknown [88.188.134.86]) by smtp5-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F8BCD48200 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:05:17 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4D2DD1AF.9070202@free.fr> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:07:11 +0100 From: appzer0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101226 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: <4D2DC21C.3050102@free.fr> <4D2DC6DA.9070601@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D2DC6DA.9070601@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: About grub.cfg{.new,} generation X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:14:57 -0000 Le 12/01/2011 16:20, Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko a =C3=A9c= rit : > You can change the "s,x,x" part adding --transform command line option > to configure. It's useful to change all the pathes used. > =20 >> 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'. >> >> =20 > grub.cfg shouldn't be packaged at all. It's autogenerated on the target > system. > > =20 Thank you very much for the info. I'll stick with the '40_custom' file th= en. appzer0