Re: grub-install hidden options weirdness

[Phillip Susi]

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On 6/25/2014 1:33 PM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> This could be considered as endorsement to continue to use it ...
> 
No, saying "dont' use this because it is depreciated" is exactly the
opposite endorsing its continued use.

>> 2)  It seems that --root-directory has been overloaded to specify
>> the efi system directory.  This seems like it was the wrong thing
>> to do and again, is totally undocumented.
> 
> 
> We already have --efi-directory. Why would you want to endorse
> this archaic usage?

I don't: I'm pointing out that this usage seems like it was an
undocumented mistake and it should be removed.

>> 3)  It appears that --grub-setup used to allow you to specify an 
>> alternate program to run instead of grub-setup.  Now it seems to
>> check if its argument is "setup" and if so, has the same affect
>> as - --no-bootsector, and otherwise has no effect.  This seems
>> completely wrong.
> 
> 
> This covers two common use cases known to me a) using it from
> within build directory with --grub=setup=./grub-setup and b) using
> it to disable actual installation with --grub-setup=/bin/true.
> Current code is compatible with them.

No, it is not.  The current code ignores all values of --grub-setup
other than --grub-setup=setup.

>> 4)  The similar arguments --grub-mkrelpath, --grub-probe, -
>> --grub-editenv, and --font are accepted and completely ignored.
>> If the option no longer works, it should be removed rather than
>> silently ignored.  At least that way you don't have people using
>> it and wondering why it isn't working.
> 
> 
> Again - common use case is using just built grub without installing
> it. Do you have example of other non-trivial use cases?

Again, they are now completely ignored and have zero effect.

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