On Mo, 06.05.19 09:20, Dridi Boukelmoune (dridi.boukelmoune@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 1:45 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > <snip> > > This makes the assumption, which was also made earlier in the thread, > > that it's somehow impossible to check what bootloader is installed. > > Why? My bootloader is happy to tell me its version: > > $ bootctl > > ... > > Current Boot Loader: > > Product: systemd-boot 241-565-g43d51bb > > Features: ✓ Boot counting > > ✓ Menu timeout control > > ✓ One-shot menu timeout control > > ✓ Default entry control > > ✓ One-shot entry control > > File: /EFI/systemd/systemd-bootx64.efi > > ... > > Nowadays it's gives the exact git commit it's built from, in the past > > it was just the release version, but either is enough. Therefore > > 'bootctl update' can fairly reliably *update*, i.e. do the installation > > if the thing we have is newer than the version already installed. > > That's news to me, and unfortunately it doesn't look as nifty on my system: > > ... > Current Boot Loader: > Product: n/a > Features: ✗ Boot counting > ✗ Menu timeout control > ✗ One-shot menu timeout control > ✗ Default entry control > ✗ One-shot entry control > ESP: n/a > File: └─n/a That only works properly on distros that implement the boot loader spec and the boot loader interface properly: https://systemd.io/BOOT_LOADER_SPECIFICATION https://systemd.io/BOOT_LOADER_INTERFACE Unfortunately, Fedora/grub do not support either. (Which is a pity of course, since it also means there's no working "systemctl --boot-loader-entry=" support in Fedora, nor "sytemctl kexec" support). Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Berlin _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
