Re: [bitfolk] Keep an eye on your CentOS Stream 8 grub.cfg f…

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Author: Andy Smith
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Subject: Re: [bitfolk] Keep an eye on your CentOS Stream 8 grub.cfg for "blscfg" being introduced

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Hi Jamie,

On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 09:29:00PM +0000, Jamie Stallwood wrote:
> I can replicate this having just done a yum/dnf update.


Thanks for the digging! Do you know what was installed to trigger
the conversion to blscfg?

> The file /etc/default/grub has just been dropped in by a new version of
> grub2-tools (according you yum whatprovides) with the line:
> GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true


The weird thing is that if you do a new install of CentOS Stream 8
right now (at BitFolk), you will have
grub2-tools-2.02-123.el8.x86_64 but it will have no mention of
GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG in /etc/default/grub.

I still don't know how to replicate this.

Is there some earlier version of grub2-tools that introduces a new
GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true line such that if you had an existing
install you would get that line and retain it even after
grub2-tools-2.02-123 was later installed?

Cheers,
Andy

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