Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-23 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 15:06:03 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 08:21:36 Michael Mol wrote: > > If you're not frequently jumping to a non-default boot environment, it's > > fine. > > That's my problem: I do often want to start a minimal system. As I said > before not far from here,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 08:21:36 Michael Mol wrote: > If you're not frequently jumping to a non-default boot environment, it's > fine. That's my problem: I do often want to start a minimal system. As I said before not far from here, any time a substantial update is needed, especially if it

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Tuesday, August 23, 2016 10:41:50 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 05:18:02 Tom H wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Peter Humphrey > > wrote: > > > Following today's marking of gummiboot as to be deleted in a month, I > > > had a look at

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 11:10:40 Neil Bothwick wrote: > As long as the source file is still in $DISTDIR, you don't need to do > anything. > You could put the file somewhere; personal web space, github > etc, and change the SRC_URI to point to it, but that's not really > necessary. Can a SRC_URI be

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:15:16 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I really don't understand the urgency in treecleaning gummiboot. > > > Like grub1, it will still work in 10 years time... > > > > I agree, just copy it to a local overlay. > > How would I manage the distfile, which at present

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-23 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 2:12 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Monday, August 22, 2016 02:59:55 PM Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Håkon Alstadheim >> >> wrote: >> > Booting straight into linux on an EFI system without a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-23 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Håkon Alstadheim > wrote: >> Booting straight into linux on an EFI system without a boot-loader means >> you have no way to provide command-line or initramfs as

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 05:18:02 Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Following today's marking of gummiboot as to be deleted in a month, I > > had a look at efibootmgr in the wiki pages. It looks as though I'll be > > able to use it

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-23 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Following today's marking of gummiboot as to be deleted in a month, I had a > look at efibootmgr in the wiki pages. It looks as though I'll be able to use > it instead, but one thing puzzles me: is it possible to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 22 Aug 2016 21:08:56 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:59:41 +, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I really don't understand the urgency in treecleaning gummiboot. > > Like grub1, it will still work in 10 years time... > > I agree, just copy it to a local overlay. How would I

Re: [gentoo-user] What's happened to gentoo-sources?

2016-08-23 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Peter Humphrey > wrote: >> >> Well, according to eix, there's only 4.4.19 between 4.1.30 and 4.7.2. > > Those are just the versions packaged for Gentoo. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] What's happened to gentoo-sources?

2016-08-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, August 23, 2016 09:30:27 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 09:25:32 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Strange, I just resynced: > > > > # eix gentoo-sources > > [?] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources > > > > Available versions: > --->8 > > > (4.4.6) 4.4.6^bs{tbz2} > >

Re: [gentoo-user] What's happened to gentoo-sources?

2016-08-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 09:25:32 J. Roeleveld wrote: > Strange, I just resynced: > > # eix gentoo-sources > [?] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources > Available versions: --->8 > (4.4.6) 4.4.6^bs{tbz2} > (4.4.19) ~4.4.19^bs > (4.7.2) ~4.7.2^bs Same here today, not using git. Looks like

Re: [gentoo-user] What's happened to gentoo-sources?

2016-08-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, August 21, 2016 10:12:59 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > After this morning's sync, both versions 4.4.6 and 4.6.4 of gentoo-sources > have disappeared. Is this just finger trouble in the server chain? I get the > same with UK and US sync servers. Strange, I just resynced:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, August 22, 2016 02:59:55 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Håkon Alstadheim > > wrote: > > Booting straight into linux on an EFI system without a boot-loader means > > you have no way to provide command-line or initramfs as far as I