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Re: [Debathena] #1011: Give up on kexec for auto-upgrades
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Jarvis)
Thu Nov 10 21:13:44 2011
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From: John Jarvis <JRJARVIS@MIT.EDU>
To: Debathena Trac <debathena@MIT.EDU>
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> Hmm, two successive perl -i.bak -pe s/foo/bar/ on /etc/default/grub may
> not be the greatest plan.
>
Yeah, good point.
> >
> > Note if something does fail during upgrade /etc/default/grub will be
> tainted.
>
> tained as in have GRUB_DEFAULT=saved and/or GRUB_CMDLINE set, or something
> else?
>
Just /etc/default/grub would be tainted outside the chroot jail. Only
concern was if the new kernel panics or something else fails (before
the the disk is re-partitioned) that it will reboot and those options
will be changed. Doesn't seem like a big deal though.
