Re: F29 System Wide Change: Make BootLoaderSpec the default

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On Mi, 20.06.18 19:40, Chris Murphy (lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> > What's going on? What is this? Why is this called "Boot loader spec"
> > if it implements an entirely different logic, and misses the entire
> > point of the boot loader spec?
> >
> > Quite frankly, I am really surprised by this and this makes me wonder
> > what the whole point of this feature is at all, and very sure we
> > shouldn't have it like this.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> But I also think there is some incremental risk of namespace collision
> with /loader/entries as mentioned in Matthew Garrett's derivative of
> the spec, if it's not located in /EFI/fedora/
> 
> Could $BOOT/org/freedesktop/bls/entries instead be
> $BOOT/org.freedesktop.bls/entries ?

The boot loader spec is already implemented in various tools under the
very "$BOOT/loader/entries" name (just read it aloud, it tells you
exactly what this is), I doubt there's need to rename it now. it's not
that the namespace below $BOOT or ESP is particularly crowded,
anyway. Also, I like my bikesheds blue.

Lennart

-- 
Lennart Poettering, Red Hat
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