Bug#1058905: QEMU: why not use package opensbi as dependency?

2023-12-18 Thread Michael Tokarev
18.12.2023 10:59, Heinrich Schuchardt: On 12/18/23 07:41, Michael Tokarev wrote: Yes, we can do that.  I don't see much benefit here though. For one, I dislike dangling symlinks in package, and don't want to add yet another directory to firmware search directories. OpenSBI is security

Bug#1058905: QEMU: why not use package opensbi as dependency?

2023-12-18 Thread Heinrich Schuchardt
On 12/18/23 07:41, Michael Tokarev wrote: Yes, we can do that.  I don't see much benefit here though. For one, I dislike dangling symlinks in package, and don't want to add yet another directory to firmware search directories. OpenSBI is security critical as it runs in the highest privilege

Bug#1058905: QEMU: why not use package opensbi as dependency?

2023-12-17 Thread Michael Tokarev
18.12.2023 09:33, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: Package: qemu-system-data Version: 1:8.2.0~rc2+ds-1 Severity: wishlist Hello Michael, Debian provides package opensbi. I didn't know about opensbi up until this your email. In the qemu package's debian/rules we build another OpenSBI. Wouldn't it

Bug#1058905: QEMU: why not use package opensbi as dependency?

2023-12-17 Thread Heinrich Schuchardt
Package: qemu-system-data Version: 1:8.2.0~rc2+ds-1 Severity: wishlist Hello Michael, Debian provides package opensbi. In the qemu package's debian/rules we build another OpenSBI. Wouldn't it be preferable to reuse the existing opensbi package? This would imply that if we update OpenSBI also