linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken

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Date:	Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:35:03 -0400
From:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...izon.net>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp,
	aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, rjw@...k.pl, ray-lk@...rabbit.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	stern@...land.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken

On Thursday 30 July 2009, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
>On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:19:19 EDT, Gene Heskett said:
>> Whenever I let rpm get access to my grub.conf, I always have to go back in
>> with vim & fix the stanza numbers I keep track of the boots with.  Grub
>> doesn't really care, but I do. :)  rpm should be so neat...
>
>Just to be accurate - this isn't rpm's fault, it's a program called
> 'grubby'.
>
>I understand the reasoning - if you just installed a new kernel, you
> probably want it to be the one started at next boot.  But it would be nice
> if grubby had a configure option for that in /etc/sysconfig/grubby or
> someplace...

Humm, kewl.  And the src's for grubby are where?  Hopefully in C so thois old 
fart can grok...

Thanks.

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