grub-pc should add debconf hook to update grub-pc/install_devices when using grub-install manually
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: grub-pc
On initial install of grub-pc, debconf prompts the user to select which device he/she would like to install grub to and then records the selection in grub-pc/
I rely heavily on byte for byte imaging to mass deploy custom Ubuntu images at work and the prompting debconf wanted to do for (potentially) each machine (because the original build had a UUID set as the device) even after I manually re-installed grub was driving me absolutely crazy.
On a side note it would be nice if future Ubuntu installers gave the option to use the old device naming schemes instead of UUID's as I think there is still a strong enough demand for it but thats for a different discussion....
Thanks,
Tyler
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: grub-pc 1.98-1ubuntu7
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 29 11:47:11 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub2
I don't think that this will be done because you can run grub-install on other devices that you don't plan on having automatically updated. If you change the uuid after imaging you should probably run dpkg-reconfigure to update grub2, then it won't need to ask later.
I subscribed Colin Watson so he will see this and correct me if I am wrong in setting this to won't fix.