On Sun, May 24, 2020, at 9:39 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 6:42 PM Paul Dufresne via devel > <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Le 20-05-24 à 19 h 34, Naheem Zaffar a écrit : > > > The change record for this states that we are not following the BLS at > > > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ but > > > the proposed update at > > > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/MatthewGarrett/BootLoaderSpec/ . > > > > Thanks for remembering me this alternative specification! > > > > That said, Fedora does not seems to follow this alternative spec, > > because we use: > > > > $BOOT/loader directory, and not $BOOT/org/freedesktop/bls directory as > > indicated in this standard. > > > > The point is that as the $BOOT is shared among distributions, there must > > be a way to detect if it is already there, to be able to re-use it. For > > that, the specification (whatever the exact version if chosen) must be > > relatively well followed. > > Yep. > > But an additional difficulty to fully implementing the spec is so far > upstream GRUB don't want to follow it. So that means Fedora has to > carry patches for GRUB to support it. And it's just yet another of > 100+ patches Fedora carries for GRUB, and makes it difficult for the > Fedora and RH boot teams. The resources so far implement some of the > parts of BLS that help make things better on Fedora, but it's not a > complete implementation. Drop-in snippets to add new kernels is crash > safe, worst case the previous kernel is booted and you just reinstall > the kernel; but writing out a new grub.cfg or modifying it, wasn't > ever crash safe. Also, modifying the snippets is easier, they're just > a few lines and fairly self-describing compared to what users often > did, which was wade neck deep into editing grub.cfg. Or the Rube > Goldberg machine that is editing /etc/default/grub, running a script > (grub-mkconfig), which then runs 20 other scripts to create a > configuration file that is actually a script. > Even so, isn't the canonical way of persistently updating kernel args, still, to edit /etc/default/grub and run the script? (If not, are there docs for the new way?) V/r, James Cassell _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
