This patch allows to run update-grub on Cygwin.
Christian
2008-07-24 Christian Franke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* util/update-grub.in: Add a check for admin
group for Cygwin.
Add `-f' to `rm' and `mv' of grub.cfg to handle
the different filesystem semantics on Windows.
diff --git a/util/update-grub.in b/util/update-grub.in
index c78444e..70607a5 100644
--- a/util/update-grub.in
+++ b/util/update-grub.in
@@ -73,8 +73,20 @@ if [ "x$EUID" = "x" ] ; then
fi
if [ "$EUID" != 0 ] ; then
- echo "$0: You must run this as root" >&2
- exit 1
+ root=f
+ case "`uname 2>/dev/null`" in
+ CYGWIN*)
+ # Cygwin: Assume root if member of admin group
+ for g in `id -G 2>/dev/null` ; do
+ case $g in
+ 0|544) root=t ;;
+ esac
+ done ;;
+ esac
+ if [ $root != t ] ; then
+ echo "$0: You must run this as root" >&2
+ exit 1
+ fi
fi
set $grub_mkdevicemap dummy
@@ -154,6 +166,7 @@ export GRUB_DEVICE GRUB_DEVICE_UUID GRUB_DEVICE_BOOT GRUB_DEVICE_BOOT_UUID GRUB_
# These are optional, user-defined variables.
export GRUB_DEFAULT GRUB_TIMEOUT GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT GRUB_TERMINAL GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID
+rm -f ${grub_cfg}.new
exec > ${grub_cfg}.new
# Allow this to fail, since /boot/grub/ might need to be fatfs to support some
@@ -187,6 +200,6 @@ for i in ${update_grub_dir}/* ; do
done
# none of the children aborted with error, install the new grub.cfg
-mv ${grub_cfg}.new ${grub_cfg}
+mv -f ${grub_cfg}.new ${grub_cfg}
echo "done" >&2
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