Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: tag -1 wontfix On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Lukas Wunner <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: gummiboot > Version: 45-2 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > The attached patch fixes the following issues: > > - On first install, gummiboot must be invoked with "install" instead of > "update". Up until now the user has to manually run "gummiboot install" > after first installing this package. Looking at src/setup/setup.c, > it seems okay to always invoke gummiboot with "install" regardless > if the package is installed for the first time or upgraded: If gummiboot > is already installed it will simply be overwritten.
This is working as intended. I do not want to install gummiboot before they had the chance to properly configure it, and it also introduces other issues. Some users also may not want to install gummiboot to the ESP at all, and just want the binary for a USB stick or similar. > - On removing the package, gummiboot is not removed from the EFI partition. That's true, and it's intended. The ESP is shared between multiple distributions. We cannot assume ownership of the gummiboot in there and simply remove it. We can only do save stuff with it, that is, updating it. > - gummiboot offers the option "--no-variables" which prevents changes to > the EFI boot order. One example where this option comes in handy is a > dual-boot Mac on which the user wants to continue booting OS X by default. > The patch makes this option configurable. I've set the priority to > "critical" because changing the boot order can break the system. This problem only arises due to calling install. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
