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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] pygrub: look harder for elilo.conf

To: keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] pygrub: look harder for elilo.conf
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 04:48:14 +0100
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On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:42:44PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote:
> Keir,
> 
> This would also be appropriate for 3.1.0, since the /usr/lib fix makes
> pygrub work on ia64
> 
> Presently pygrub only looks in /efi/redhat/elilo.conf.  It should
> check for other distributions, plus a couple fallback locations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aron Griffis <aron@xxxxxx>
> 
> diff -r 6d64f9eefad5 -r 67df28389f46 tools/pygrub/src/pygrub
> --- a/tools/pygrub/src/pygrub Wed May 02 14:50:56 2007 -0400
> +++ b/tools/pygrub/src/pygrub Wed May 02 22:39:12 2007 -0400
> @@ -361,7 +361,12 @@ class Grub:
>  
>          if platform.machine() == 'ia64':
>              self.cf = grub.LiloConf.LiloConfigFile()
> -            file_list = ("/efi/redhat/elilo.conf",)
> +            # common distributions
> +            file_list = ("/efi/debian/elilo.conf", "/efi/gentoo/elilo.conf", 
> +                         "/efi/redflag/elilo.conf", 
> "/efi/redhat/elilo.conf", 
> +                         "/efi/SuSE/elilo.conf",)

How about simply having it iterate over every first level subdirectory of /efi,
ie basically looking for  /efi/*/elilo.conf  rather than hardcoding a small
list of distros ?

Regards,
Dan.
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