# HG changeset patch # User Hans-G?nter Theisgen # Date 1640756197 -3600 # Node ID 6323f548cca6abc252e5445f807cc43c76f7cc86 # Parent 87964cbbcd165d7106bef3d6afcf870d99c518c0 updated os-prober (1.78 -> 1.79) diff -r 87964cbbcd16 -r 6323f548cca6 os-prober/description.txt --- a/os-prober/description.txt Wed Dec 29 06:29:35 2021 +0100 +++ b/os-prober/description.txt Wed Dec 29 06:36:37 2021 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ -os-prober is a spinoff of debian-installer. -One of the installer's features is that it can probe disks on the system for other operating systems, -and add them to the boot loader, so that installing Debian doesn't make your other installed OS hard to boot. +Os-prober is a spinoff of debian-installer. +One of the installer's features is that it can probe disks +on the system for other operating systems, and add them to +the boot loader, so that installing Debian doesn't make +your other installed OS hard to boot. + +To do this it needs to both be able to find out what version +of what OS lives in a given partition (linux, windows, dos, +macos, the hurd, solaris, qnx, minix). +It also needs to work out how to boot existing installed +linux systems, and has to be able to detect what distribution +is installed, to add a better menu entry to grub than just "linux". diff -r 87964cbbcd16 -r 6323f548cca6 os-prober/receipt --- a/os-prober/receipt Wed Dec 29 06:29:35 2021 +0100 +++ b/os-prober/receipt Wed Dec 29 06:36:37 2021 +0100 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ # SliTaz package receipt. PACKAGE="os-prober" -VERSION="1.78" +VERSION="1.79" CATEGORY="base-system" SHORT_DESC="Utility to detect other OSes on a set of drives." MAINTAINER="maintainer@slitaz.org" @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ cp -a $src/newns $fs/usr/lib/os-prober for dir in os-probes os-probes/mounted os-probes/init linux-boot-probes linux-boot-probes/mounted do - install -dm755 $fs/usr/lib/$dir + install -dm755 $fs/usr/lib/$dir cp -a $src/$dir/common/* $fs/usr/lib/$dir if [ -d $src/$dir/x86 ] then @@ -40,6 +40,6 @@ fi done cp -a $src/os-probes/mounted/powerpc/20macosx \ - $fs/usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/20macosx + $fs/usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/20macosx cp -a $src/common.sh $fs/usr/share/os-prober }