Re: are posix-shell-compliant continuation lines valid/supported, or not, in /etc/default/grub ?

2020-03-19 Thread PGNet Dev
On 3/19/20 8:04 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 3/19/20 10:02 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: >> I am sorry which email are the "quoted" phrases from? not from an email. directly from the bug I referenced, prior to coming here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1868138/comments/

Re: are posix-shell-compliant continuation lines valid/supported, or not, in /etc/default/grub ?

2020-03-19 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 3/19/20 10:02 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > I am sorry which email are the "quoted" phrases from? > > Because that's nothing that I have said. I hope you do understand that it > is intended for all of the Ubuntu installer & upgrade integrations to keep > valid configs compatible. And in gene

Re: are posix-shell-compliant continuation lines valid/supported, or not, in /etc/default/grub ?

2020-03-19 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
I am sorry which email are the "quoted" phrases from? Because that's nothing that I have said. I hope you do understand that it is intended for all of the Ubuntu installer & upgrade integrations to keep valid configs compatible. And in general, distros do not intentially break their users for no r

Re: are posix-shell-compliant continuation lines valid/supported, or not, in /etc/default/grub ?

2020-03-19 Thread PGNet Dev
hi, On 3/19/20 6:41 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote: > In general, other distros avoid parsing and rewriting configs because > this should be the user's responsibility. :p > > The OP should consider that maybe such distros are more stable than Ubuntu? I do. Where I directly control them, they're in use.

Re: are posix-shell-compliant continuation lines valid/supported, or not, in /etc/default/grub ?

2020-03-19 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 3/19/20 8:57 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > Have you opened a launchpad bug report against the grub2 package with both > configs before and after? What is the bug number there? > > In general, we do parse and rewrite configs using debconf which is Perl / C > / Shell processing using tools ext

Re: are posix-shell-compliant continuation lines valid/supported, or not, in /etc/default/grub ?

2020-03-19 Thread PGNet Dev
hi On 3/19/20 5:57 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > What is the bug number there? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1868138 > In general, we advise to customize via grub.d drop-in files instead of > modifying etc/default/grub file itself. Sure, that's fine as advic

Re: are posix-shell-compliant continuation lines valid/supported, or not, in /etc/default/grub ?

2020-03-19 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Have you opened a launchpad bug report against the grub2 package with both configs before and after? What is the bug number there? In general, we do parse and rewrite configs using debconf which is Perl / C / Shell processing using tools external to grub. In general, we advise to customize via gru

Re: are posix-shell-compliant continuation lines valid/supported, or not, in /etc/default/grub ?

2020-03-19 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 5:19 PM PGNet Dev wrote: > > a recent grub package update, in ubuntu 18LTS, is breaking /etc/default/grub > by mangling/overwriting users' entries, in the specific case of using > continuation lines in the file/config. and, subsequently, the upgrade process > on these se

are posix-shell-compliant continuation lines valid/supported, or not, in /etc/default/grub ?

2020-03-19 Thread PGNet Dev
a recent grub package update, in ubuntu 18LTS, is breaking /etc/default/grub by mangling/overwriting users' entries, in the specific case of using continuation lines in the file/config. and, subsequently, the upgrade process on these servers. as stated clearly at https://www.gnu.org/s

Re: Verifier running out of memory on ieee1275/powerpc64

2020-03-19 Thread Stefan Berger
On 3/18/20 6:17 PM, Simon Hardy wrote: I was wondering whether it would not be possible to load the raw file into memory, pass it to the firmware for hashing (and logging) via the verifier, and if we do not trust that the firmware treated the file data as a read-only array, load the file again in

Re: [PATCH v1] fix kernel cmdline corruption

2020-03-19 Thread Olaf Hering
Am Thu, 19 Mar 2020 15:48:28 +0800 schrieb Michael Chang : > compatibilty issue. There can not possibly be any compat issue. Please go ahead and fix this bug. Olaf pgp_HXWiYCbGr.pgp Description: Digitale Signatur von OpenPGP ___ Grub-devel mailing l

Re: [PATCH v1] fix kernel cmdline corruption

2020-03-19 Thread Michael Chang
Hi Olaf, The patch rang a bell to me and eventually I figured out that I had similar patch posted. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2018-04/msg00038.html In short, the issue is not only in the fix itself, but also to take care and provide a measure to avoid incompatible grub.cfg bef