Reopening; I think we need to handle this better and let users actually
supplement whatever MAAS, curtin, and other tools do with their own
custom, environment-specific configs.
My initial suggestion would be to expect/fix all the other providers of
files in that directory to carry on values set previously or explicitly
remove options that are explicitly conflicting (and being very clear
that they do that).
In other words:
1) (optionally) fix grub2 to have only GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in
/etc/default/grub and document to users that this is the place they are
expected to set their custom values; just for simplicity.
2) fix providers of files in /etc/default/grub.d to set
GRUB_CMDLINUX_LINUX_DEFAULT="${GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT} whatever_it_needs"
3) providers of files in /etc/default/grub.d should explicitly
'GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=$(echo GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT | grep -v
conflicting_option)' if they explicitly can't work with some option in
particular (I expect few cases of this).
This would allow maintaining the expectation of our users that configs
being set in /etc/default/grub are taken into account for their
deployments. Otherwise, we should move /etc/default/grub to be early in
/etc/default/grub.d and update all documentation to make this change
obvious, along with clearly documenting that it can be overridden by any
subsequent file in the same directory. The issue I have with that is
that it potentially means that environment-specific changes will, over
time, creep into many of the config files if things are later
added/installed that ship their own grub configs.
Thoughts?
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Dave Chiluk (chiluk) => (unassigned)
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => New
** Changed in: curtin (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => New
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Title:
Running update-grub does not update /boot/grub/grub.cfg with
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT from /etc/default/grub
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