Re: Add prefix option to grub-mkconfig

["Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>]

On 22.11.2011 10:21, Keshav P R wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 03:53, Seth Goldberg <seth.goldberg@oracle.com 
> <mailto:seth.goldberg@oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Quoting Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, who wrote the
>     following on...:
>
>         prefix will be "X". Just on runtime it will add platform to it
>         when
>         loading modules and .lst (but not locale, themes and grub.cfg)
>
>
>      Sorry -- prefix is the wrong term.  It is interesting that you're
>     going beyond what I thought, though; I thought you were just going
>     to do what grub-mkrescue did by creating the platform subdirs and
>     putting grub.cfg in there that does platform-specific stuff then
>     sources ../grub.cfg;  I think that was a good approach, since you
>     ended up with the generic entries in the ../grub.cfg file and
>     platform-specific goodness in the platform dirs.
>
>
> For now can you please check-in 
> grub-mkconfig-Use_outside_GRUB_PREFIX_if_defined.patch (file 
> attached). I can't think of any other way more simple than this. For 
> usage like (as root)
>
>   # GRUB_PREFIX="/boot/efi/efi/grub" grub-mkconfig -o 
> /boot/efi/efi/grub/grub.cfg
>
Without the rest it's an inconsistent kludge.
> This is definitely not the best or the long-term solution but for now 
> this will suffice (till the actual option to be used is decided). 
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards.
>
> Keshav
>
>
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko