I have two minor enhancement patches that I would like to see added to grub in
the tree.
The first is simply the ability to define a variable to tell the ebuild where
to install grub when using emerge --config. In the attached patch, I've used
GRUB_ALT_INSTALLDIR as the variable. It is currently setup to not do much
error checking as all it does is check if the location exists, so it's probably
not safe for use in make.conf or anything, but it makes the "emerge --config"
non-interactive and scriptable. This patch also changes the einfo in
pkg_postinst to elog and changed the DONT_MOUNT_BOOT check so it still outputs
the text, even if the user asked to skip mounting boot/installing grub. I hope
it isn't a problem that I added them all into one patch, but with how minor the
changes are, I didn't think that anyone would mind.
The second is a patch to the grub.conf we install that has a genkernel example
in it. All that I did here was remove the init=/linuxrc, ramdisk=8192, and
udev options. Since genkernel no longer even supports building an initrd (as
of 3.4.10_pre8, though initramfs has been the default much longer), the
init=/linuxrc and ramdisk=8192 options aren't necessary, and are actually
ignored (by genkernel, as ramdisk still works for setting the size different
from the kernel's built-in). The udev option has been removed from genkernel
for quite some time now, as we've been using mdev from busybox since 3.4.0_pre4
in July of '06.
there's no need for the [-z] check as [-d] will fail on an empty string
so drop the -z, cuddle the "then", and then it should be fine for you to commit
