On Monday 22 Aug 2016 21:08:56 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:59:41 +0000, 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 manage the distfile, which at present is in dev.gentoo.org? I assume it will disappear from there when gummiboot is deleted. Should I create a files directory for it under /usr/local/portage/sys-boot/gummiboot? What would I do then with SRC_URI in the ebuild? > If a serious bug does arise, you then have the choice of trying to > persuade someone to backport the fix from systemd or switch bootloaders. In fact I think it might be easier to follow Rich's intriguing suggestion and install systemd. I've never managed to get grub-2 working with my arrangement of kernels and run levels. It seems natural enough to me to want to be able to choose between a full desktop and a minimal system at boot time, but it seems awfully hard to do with grub-2. This is what I have in the latter run level: # ls /etc/runlevels/nonet gpm local smartd syslog-ng > I've no idea how tightly bootctl (as gummibot is now called after its > assimilation in the the systemd collective) is bound to systemd. It may > well be feasible to create an ebuild that builds bootctl from the systemd > sources without the rest of systemd, as is already done with udev. That sounds a bit beyond my abilities at present; I'll bear it in mind though. -- Rgds Peter
