-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Please keep chroot-like environments in mind (e.g. lxc, > Linux vserver, debootstrap, etc.). Installing grub-pc due > to some unexpected dependency chain or just by accident > should not make your host system unbootable.
That said, there are also use cases where one wants to install grub but not the boot loader. For example in virtual machines running Xen with pygrub. There you want Debian to update /boot/grub/{grub.cfg,menu.lst} but not the boot loader. There may be similar cases for embedded systems and some other virtualization/chrooted magic. Why don't prompt the user in a - as for me low priority - debconf template whether he wants to install the boot loader or not with defaults to yes? Or, alternatively, query a variable in /etc/default or something similar which lets the user override this decision, like if [ ! -e /boot/GRUB_DONT_TOUCH_BOOTLOADER ] ; grub-install-things fi - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJOAbDqAAoJEMcrUe6dgPNt+/sQAMUhxLKqTwxZ1Jq4Pg8Vt+gD /XGR4mJZhbm1qQGrcPf8KAawtrIdDCWa3A7iCFUZcQXQ9QI2sMD+8F9sWBXBMoDX Mfei6IdPC/2+VzuY1ozd/6v61GpWkr07Xl7yEEjPP7Wwl4CgIbjuce3ne7pXAHRa aZCeIRRSnMa9FsxsigUmYJevCckWmLxlELX4lAIv1gto0uTPBBb2sn1xqHBbLUW6 Sv985aQ1CI/sevp5/iTi47Qb9CT1dGQ0sZGIa9U8oAk92HHJ3Mq4bvhFRuuciuCD O58Upvhf1Vegd64c+gPk/n/GYWE+urITh6dDdu6ejHk0a1YMHOGx25D4FKQSFuMj /3IZlLDRTjfPVMcF3qBB+kfNCdzi9pF4B72cey48Ajv3YhtUmLE4bB/ZY6YMy8Cv mCbzBCqVmRgRcI4xgy8nCmrf8uE4OE7+JBtf7OpcdmtWWPEWdmrPlFYmkroAWn5t HjFCW0478Gddzd42zfjAXC3Jf8r/k75Qp/Z1BmVhNNQUmsGKP22jCX6JgJJ6KlcE r6aGfXVxSP3nFUJ1+gpxReiGFGNhvo1btqJvYQ2QGREaK0xQiEvr2OTWC6EhST2A agubpXtW1wybd2VphEEVxSeQLMPYBrBstdjguAGVhRGtlsxMd7+Ji1/0EzjqFXoW RgQIg/kKwITUX0BqcgIb =h1XY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org