On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:15:16 +0100, Peter Humphrey 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?
As long as the source file is still in $DISTDIR, you don't need to do anything. You could put the file somewhere; personal web space, github etc, and change the SRC_URI to point to it, but that's not really necessary. > > 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. That's worth trying out, *before* gummiboot it treecleaned! > > 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. Mine too, I was just throwing it out there as an idea for someone to consider. I use systemd anyway, so the assimilation is ot a problem for me. -- Neil Bothwick I'm firm. You're obstinate. He's a pigheaded fool.
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