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Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation
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Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation |
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Thu, 7 Jan 2010 20:15:50 +0100 |
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On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 03:21:08PM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 11:59 +0800, address@hidden wrote:
> > > If we decide so, we go back to option 1 (my original
> > implementation).
> > > Because the backup file format is not important any more as it is
> > > totally transparent to the restorers. Am I right?
> >
> > Another option would be to start the backup file with "#!/bin/sh" ...
>
> Create this shell script in grub-setup.c? I don't see how this is less
> invasive than changing grub-install script. But if everyone agree to add
> the sharutils package dependency (for uuencode/uudecode), I can
> implement this in V2.
Erm, no, please don't do such a thing. C code is fine :-)
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Robert Millan
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