On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 07:36:05PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> I've been working on a system that allows the user to easily make >> their own init system selection: >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/init-select.html >> >> I've just finished working on a patch for grub (see attached) to >> support init-select's /etc/default/init conffile. >> >> This changes util/grub.d/10_linux.in to put the selected init bootflag >> in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT. If there is a better approach, please >> let me know, and I'll try to improve the patch. > > You're missing kFreeBSD and Hurd support here, FWIW. > > However, I don't think this should require changing grub2 at all. > Nowadays we support other packages dropping files into > /etc/default/grub.d/*.cfg, which are read after /etc/default/grub and > can modify the various variables that are exported by grub-mkconfig to > /etc/grub.d/ scripts. Could you investigate taking this approach in > init-select instead? In this case, I think that would be better than > adding another entry to grub2's already large and unwieldy patch stack.
Hi Colin, Thanks a bunch for the feeback. I'll look into that. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
