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bug #36772: grub-2.00: grub-mkstandalone: please add the possibility to include only specified modules in memdisk

Submitter:  Maxim Kammerer <mkdesu>
Submitted:  Tue 03 Jul 2012 09:43:41 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Installation Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Feature Request
Status:  Fixed Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name: 
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  other
Release:  Reproducibility:  None
Planned Release:  None

Tue 03 Jul 2012 09:43:41 AM UTC, original submission:  

Currently, grub-mkstandalone includes all modules in memdisk. It would be nice to be able to include only the specified modules, with automatic dependency resolution.

It is not hard to do even in a wrapper script, without access to dependency resolution routines. I do something like this before invoking grub-mkimage ($moddir is a temporary directory for building memdisk, $mods is the list of modules):

    # Iteratively include all dependent modules
    local oldmods= deps= modname=
    while [ "${mods}" != "${oldmods}" ]; do
        oldmods="${mods}"
        for modname in ${mods}; do
            deps=`sed -n "s/^${modname}://p" ${libdir}/${arch}/moddep.lst`
            mods="${mods}${deps}"
        done

        mods=`echo ${mods} | tr ' ' '\n' | sort -u`
    done

    # Filter filesystems list, so that "search" doesn't try to load modules
    # Filter commands from minicmd overrides
    mkdir -p ${moddir}
    cp -p ${libdir}/${arch}/*.lst ${moddir}
    sed -ri "/^(`echo ${mods} | tr ' ' '|'`)\$/b; d" ${moddir}/fs.lst
    sed -ri '/^\*(cat|help):/d'                      ${moddir}/command.lst

    mods=`echo "${mods}" | sed "s:.*:${libdir}/${arch}/&.mod:"`
    cp -p ${mods} ${moddir}

Filtering command.lst above is only necessary if "cat" or "help" are not separately included. Perhaps requiring such filtering can be classified as a bug instead.

Maxim Kammerer <mkdesu>

 

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