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On Wednesday, 28 September 2022 12:05:19 BST Nils Freydank wrote: |
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> Hi Peter, |
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> long story short: AFAICT it's a deprecated or moved configuration entry |
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> inside the file /etc/machine-info and should be safe to just delete, maybe |
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> even with the whole file machine-info itself. |
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> On my machine with openrc and systemd-boot I don't even have |
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> /etc/machine-info at all and things work fine together. To me it looks as |
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> the variable was just thrown out of the machine-info file and in case you |
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> would need it you should put it into /etc/kernel/install.conf. |
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> I don't know which software uses the string. If you compile your kernel |
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> manually or using the gentoo-kernel packages it seems to be not necessary. |
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> (But as always when taking advice from strangers on the internet: First make |
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> a backup, have a live medium for recovery at hand and test it yourself.) |
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Thanks Nils. |
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Looking more carefully, I see only one machine has an /etc/machine-info. I've |
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moved it and I no longer get the warning. Simple as that, eh? |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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