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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: openrc-0.28 mounts efivars read only
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 23:04:46
Message-Id: CAEdQ38G4SZ13PTcUkEx1ra4T9BXs9upG7Yfqth0WJPNZT_6wpA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: openrc-0.28 mounts efivars read only by William Hubbs
1 On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 2:44 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 04:03:25PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:
3 >> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:42 AM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
4 >> > OpenRC 0.28 will mount efivars read only by default due to concerns
5 >> > about users bricking systems by writing to this filesystem unexpectedly.
6 >> >
7 >> > Here is the newsitem covering this change.
8 >> >
9 >> > William
10 >> >
11 >>
12 >> This will break boot loader installers, like grub-install and bootctl
13 >> (systemd-boot). Please update any relevant documents on the wiki, or
14 >> find someone who can do it for you.
15 >
16 > I'm not stopping anyone from making those updates, so if someone knows
17 > what needs to be changed, go for it. :-)
18
19 That's now how this works. You can't leave something as crucial as
20 boot loader installation documentation in a bad state.
21
22 It's your responsibility to ensure that happens.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: openrc-0.28 mounts efivars read only Lucas Ramage <ramage.lucas94@×××××.com>