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| 2024-09-11 |
Slackware adjusts how GRUB scripts are updated |
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The Slackware Linux distribution rarely makes any large or revoltionary changes and has a well-earned reputation for being consistent. As a result, even small adjustments can draw attention. This past week Slackware introduced a new approach to upgrading the GRUB package, specifically overwriting existing GRUB scripts. The project's changelog discusses the change to Slackware's -current branch: "Long ago, we began giving all the scripts in /etc/grub.d/ the .new treatment to prevent local customizations from being overwritten with a package upgrade. But, this no longer appears to be a good idea, especially if we're ever going to offer the possibility to automate grub-install and grub-update. So, we are no longer going to preserve the contents of these files when the grub package is upgraded. We will however preserve the existing permissions, so you'll be able to turn off scripts that you don't want running, and you'll be able to make new scripts, or make edited and renamed copies of the scripts shipped in this package, so there's no real loss of functionality here. It looks like 40_custom is intended to be locally edited, so we make an exception and do not overwrite that one." |
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