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