Control: reassign -1 fwupd 2.0.8-3 Control: retitle -1 fwupd: need to build with -Defi_os_dir=debian
On Mon, 12 May 2025 20:17:46 +0000 "=?utf-8?B?RGF2aWQgSMOkcmRlbWFu?=" <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: systemd-boot-efi-amd64-signed > Version: 257.5-2 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > now that there is a signed version of systemd-boot, I decided to play > around a bit and try to get it to work without disabling SecureBoot on > my laptop. > > So, with some dpkg --force flags, I removed grub-efi-amd64-signed and > installed systemd-boot, basically following the instructions from the > wiki [1]. > > Modulo complaints about essential packages being removed and shim having > missing dependencies (which was expected, given that [1] is still > pending). > > Rebooted, and all worked suprisingly well. Later I noticed that I had a > pending fwupd firmware update (BIOS update). Ok, so I told fwupdtool to > install the update and rebooted. The update wasn't installed. > > "fwupdtool get-history" claimed that the update had failed because > EFI/systemd/shimx64.efi was missing (so fwupd seems to have some logic > to determine which bootloader is in use). So I manually copied > EFI/debian/shimx64.efi to EFI/systemd and tried again. This time it > worked. > > I'm not sure if this should be considered a bug in fwupd or in > systemd-boot. fwupd needs to be built with -Defi_os_dir=debian so that it looks for shim in the right place, which is \EFI\debian\
