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Re: [PATCH] move functionality of font_path() directly to util/grub-mkco


From: Felix Zielcke
Subject: Re: [PATCH] move functionality of font_path() directly to util/grub-mkconfig.in and prefer unicode.pf2 over ascii.pf2
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:36:20 +0200

Am Samstag, den 08.08.2009, 01:12 -0400 schrieb Pavel Roskin:
> On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 14:57 +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> 
> > I commited it now with an ack from Robert on IRC.
> 
> Sorry, I'm commenting after it has been committed.  Anyway, please note
> that having an approval doesn't absolve you from testing the code on
> your own.  Reviews are not testing.  There was a warning introduced by
> your change, and there was a syntax error after "ascii".  Also, the
> formatting of the moved code should have been changed to use the same
> indentation as the target file.  I have fixed all that.

Sorry.

> Could you please explain what I should do to keep using ascii.pf2?  I
> checked the script, but don't see any variable controlling that.  "make
> install" would install both unicode.pf2 and ascii.pf2, so unicode.pf2
> would always be preferred.

With the old code ascii.pf2 would be always preferred.
There wasn't either a way to specify it.

> If changing the default, it's a good style to provide an easy way for
> users to keep the old setting, and I just don't see it, short or
> removing /usr/src/unifont.bdf and /usr/local/share/grub/unicode.pf2 so
> that they are never reinstalled or detected by GRUB.

Here's now a patch which allows users to specifiy the used font with
GRUB_FONT=ascii


-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer

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