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On Monday 22 Aug 2016 21:08:56 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:59:41 +0000, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> > I really don't understand the urgency in treecleaning gummiboot. |
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> > Like grub1, it will still work in 10 years time... |
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> I agree, just copy it to a local overlay. |
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How would I manage the distfile, which at present is in dev.gentoo.org? I |
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assume it will disappear from there when gummiboot is deleted. Should I |
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create a files directory for it under /usr/local/portage/sys-boot/gummiboot? |
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What would I do then with SRC_URI in the ebuild? |
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> If a serious bug does arise, you then have the choice of trying to |
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> persuade someone to backport the fix from systemd or switch bootloaders. |
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In fact I think it might be easier to follow Rich's intriguing suggestion |
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and install systemd. I've never managed to get grub-2 working with my |
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arrangement of kernels and run levels. It seems natural enough to me to want |
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to be able to choose between a full desktop and a minimal system at boot |
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time, but it seems awfully hard to do with grub-2. This is what I have in |
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the latter run level: |
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# ls /etc/runlevels/nonet |
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gpm local smartd syslog-ng |
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> I've no idea how tightly bootctl (as gummibot is now called after its |
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> assimilation in the the systemd collective) is bound to systemd. It may |
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> well be feasible to create an ebuild that builds bootctl from the systemd |
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> sources without the rest of systemd, as is already done with udev. |
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That sounds a bit beyond my abilities at present; I'll bear it in mind |
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though. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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