Re: A Simple If Condition support in grub config files Patch

[Alban Crequy]

Le dimanche 31 octobre 2004 à 15:52, Muhammed Fawzy a écrit:
> Dear Sir, 
>     Attached is a patch i made to add a simple conditional statement to
> the grub config file grub.conf
>  
> the statement looks like the following 
>  
>  
> root (hd0, 0)
> kernel somekernel 
> if!exists some file
>     kernel someotherkernel
>  
> This is the first time in my life I make a patch so i am waiting for
> your comments.

Hello,

I think Yoshinori K. Okuji will not accept the patch because Grub didn't
accept new features. However, you may push your patch on [1] as it may
be usefull for someone. There is also Grub 2, still in developpement
which accepts new features. (I am not a dev of grub, I don't know the
features needed by grub 2)

[1] http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=grub

The patch format is often the output of the "diff -Naur" command, all in
one file, instead of sending a patch for each file. IMHO it is easier to
apply.

I remember someone wanted this feature, but I can't remember why. Can
you give me a context where this feature is usefull?

-- 
Alban