On 26/05/2023 00:16, Peter Ehlert wrote:
updates cause my edits to be overwritten... that sucks
Do you mean the following bookworm update?
grub2 (2.06-4) unstable; urgency=high
* Add a commented-out GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER section to
/etc/default/grub to make it easier for users to turn os-prober
back on if they want it. Closes: #1013797, #1009336
-- Steve McIntyre <93...@debian.org> Wed, 14 Sep 2022 22:35:49 +0100
# If your computer has multiple operating systems installed, then you
# probably want to run os-prober. However, if your computer is a host
# for guest OSes installed via LVM or raw disk devices, running
# os-prober can cause damage to those guest OSes as it mounts
# filesystems to look for things.
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
There are people who wants other OSes to be discovered and added to boot
menu. That is why any default value is not suitable for a fraction of
users. Besides GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER, there is GRUB_OS_PROBER_SKIP_LIST
for more granular selection, see
info '(grub) Simple configuration'
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/Simple-configuration.html
If you do not need os-prober, it seems you can just remove the package.
Are your complains caused by changes when os-prober was disabled for
security reasons (it was announced in the NEWS file)
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2021-December/041769.html
and the following changes to partially revert such decision (see bug
reports mentioned in changelog entries)?
perhaps someone should fix that other crap and leave us normal people alone
What fix do you expect? I see at least the following attempt
grub2 (2.06-9) unstable; urgency=medium
* Add debconf logic for GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER to make it easier to
control things here. Particularly useful for the installer.
Closes: #1031594, #1012865, #1025698.
-- Steve McIntyre <93...@debian.org> Thu, 20 Apr 2023 20:35:11 +0100
