On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 11:51 PM Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 4:01 AM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Ideally, we should change to a system similar to what openSUSE does > > and have the RPMs install bootloader content into /usr, then execute a > > helper program that copies things over to /boot and configures things > > properly (we should still have the files %ghosted in /boot, though!). > > This makes it much more straightforward to support updating or > > downgrading bootloader files when needed, which is why openSUSE does > > it this way to support full system snapshots with rollback > > functionality. > > That's the intent of bootupd. > https://github.com/coreos/bootupd/ > > And also include 'grub2-install' on BIOS systems to ensure the > embedded instance is also kept up to date. And a possible future > feature is EFI system partition syncing in the case of multiple ESPs.
Agreed that packages shouldn't install anything in /boot or update the bootloader images (e.g: the embedding gap for x86 legacy BIOS, PReP partition for ppc64le, etc) and instead all that setup logic should be done by bootupd. Best regards, Javier _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
