On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 15:18:05 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 07/07/16 02:55 PM, David Wright wrote: > >On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 14:39:51 (-0400), Gary Dale wrote: > >>The big selling feature of Grub over Lilo was that it didn't need to > >>updated each time you changed something. That fell by the wayside > >>with Grub 2. Now the big selling feature is that it works with more > >>than just Linux. > >I guess I don't know what you mean by "update". > >If I change the contents of grub.cfg, the effect is immediate: > >the changes will be seen at the next boot. I don't do anything more. > However the second line of grub.cfg says "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE". If you do > edit it, the changes will be overwritten the next time a debian upgrade > automatically regenerates it. The only method for preserving your changes is > to update the grub templates then run update-grub.
No it's not. dpkg-divert. That's sufficient to search the list archives for something which has been mentioned a few times but has passed you by.
