Re: [RFC] grub-install C rewrite

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

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On 26.09.2013 22:22, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 08:49:52PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>> This is interesting testcase which wasn't brought before. This would
>> potentially involve creating several core.img or forcing UUID when using
>> multiple devices. Again, pretty easy in C and hairy in bash due to list
>> handling.
> 
> No, one core.img is fine.  The boot disk is the boot disk in each case
> (so on x86 device 0x80).
We don't rely on it being 0x80 and it may not be 0x80 at all.
> Since the
> partition is raid1, the same UUID is everywhere.
UUID would be the same but for whole other reason. It's the same because
even with different install device you still have same device for $grubdir.
The problem comes from the possibility to avoid UUID entirely on some
devices but not others.
>  I do not expect
> booting from a raid5 device to be possible as the boot partition
This works. Your expectations are too low.
> 
>> It's surely sth we can do. grub-install does only following that is
>> affecting system:
>> 1) mkdir -p
>> 2) copy files. We can write exact copy commands
>> 3) grub-mkimage. We can do the same.
>> 4) grub-setup. Ditto
>> 5) Create load.cfg. Ditto.
>> 6) calling external commands.
>>  We can have 4 levels of verbosity:
>> 0) quiet,
>> 1) write to stderr the commands
>> 2) like 1 but show grub_util_info
>> 3) additionally show grub_dprintf
>>
>> It's also possible to have options --dry-run (doesn't really do the
>> changes, except, perhaps, "mkdir -p") and --gen-script which would
>> generate a list of commands which when executed would do exactly as if
>> grub-install was run. So you can do
>> grub-install --dry-run --gen-script=/tmp/myinstall ...
>> <change /tmp/myinstall to will>
>> /tmp/myinstall
>> This has additional advantage of see which commands are really executed
>> without having to understand the whole command flow.
> 



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