grub-splashimages 1.1

[Jason Thomas]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 01:40:42AM -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> So I want to release a 1.1 grub-splashimages but have a few questions:
> 
> 1. currently images are in /boot/grub/splashimages/. Some have argued
> that the boot partition is usually to small to store these in there.
> Regardless, even if the boot partition is large it just doesn't seem
> proper to place the images there. If I move them to
> /usr/share/grub/splashimages/ how can I handle this correctly for the
> next release?

Just move them. and put a note in the pre/post inst script.

> 2. I'd like to prompt the user for a default splashimage to use. What
> interface should I look at for this?

in the post inst script. See if you can make the code read the list from
the dir. not hardcoded.

> 
> 3. Once the user selects an image (if one is selected), I think the
> package should cp the image to /boot/grub/default.xpm.gz. Any comments?
> The reason behind the cp has to do with the fact that
> (hd0,x)/usr/share/grub/foo.xpm.gz won't always be available and it may
> be a bitch to deal with.

splash.xpm.gz like it already is. but yes for the moment it should be copied.



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Jason

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