> Dear Debian kernel maintainers, > > people wanting to give systemd-boot a try cannot currently follow the > upstream > recommended setup [1] that mounts a FAT-formatted partition (either > the XBOOTLDR > partition from the spec or ESP [2]) to /boot/, since dpkg requires a > lot of > things from the underlying filesystem that FAT does not support [3]. > > This could be worked around by shipping the files that are currently > installed > to /boot/ to /usr/lib/ instead, e.g. > /usr/lib/modules/$KERNEL_VERSION/ as Arch > and Fedora do, and if necessary copy the files into /boot/ in a > postinst script > and remove them likewise, as Fedora does. > > I know this is probably too late in the cycle for bookworm, but I > wanted to get > a discussion on this started in time for trixie.
One additional advantage of this would be moving further toward the direction of having packages/distro artifacts shipping only files under /usr and the rest being determined locally at install/image build time. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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