Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

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> > /boot/efi is clearly not ideal for a number of reasons, but this is what
> > we have today and changing this opens up another can of worms.  For
> > starters this will stop working:
> > 
> >     # rpm -ql shim-x64
> >     /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI
> >     /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/fbx64.efi
> >     /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/BOOTX64.CSV
> 
> That's actually an anti-feature that needs to go. Packages should not
> use rpm to put files directly in /boot. Systemd doesn't do this, the
> kernel doesn't do this (except for %ghost files). grub2 does some
> directories, but thankfully no files,

Nope:

    # rpm -ql grub2-efi-x64 | grep EFI
    /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg
    /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grubx64.efi

Only systemd-boot gets this right today, with files packaged in /usr and
bootctl updating the ESP.  Oh, and fwupd handles it correctly too.

take care,
  Gerd
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