Bug#567244: grub-common: fix grub-set-default and savedefault

Tom Marble tmarble at info9.net
Thu Jan 28 05:16:33 UTC 2010


Package: grub-common
Version: 1.98~20100126-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

All:

This minor patch enables grub-set-default(8) and the savedefault
option to work correctly by reading the grubenv "saved_entry".

Regards,

--Tom


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii  base-files              5.0.0            Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  dpkg                    1.15.5.6         Debian package management system
ii  gettext-base            0.17-8           GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  install-info            4.13a.dfsg.1-5   Manage installed documentation in 
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-5         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.11-1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
ii  os-prober                     1.35       utility to detect other OSes on a 

Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
pn  grub-emu                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  multiboot-doc                 <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information
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--- 00_header~	2010-01-27 22:35:16.946281548 -0600
+++ 00_header	2010-01-27 22:28:44.365351645 -0600
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@
   load_env
 fi
 set default="${GRUB_DEFAULT}"
+if [ \${saved_entry} ]; then
+  set default="\${saved_entry}"
+fi
 if [ \${prev_saved_entry} ]; then
   set saved_entry=\${prev_saved_entry}
   save_env saved_entry


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