Re: [PATCH] Extend the code to ignore junk files

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:22:48AM +0200, Lubomir Kundrak wrote:
> --- grub-1.96.orig/util/update-grub_lib.in    2008-04-15 00:16:12.000000000 
> +0200
> +++ grub-1.96/util/update-grub_lib.in 2008-04-15 00:15:04.000000000 +0200
> @@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ grub_file_is_not_garbage ()
>    if test -f "$1" ; then
>      case "$1" in
>        *.dpkg-dist|*.dpkg-old|*.dpkg-tmp) return 1 ;; # debian dpkg
> +      *.rpmnew|*.rpmsave) return 1 ;; # Fedora rpm
> +      *.bak|*~|.*.swp) return 1 ;;    # backup and swap files from editors

This has the side-effect that Linux images whose name ends with ~ are excluded,
which is probably not that uncommon.  E.g. /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.foobar~

Is this really what we want?

-- 
Robert Millan

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