Re: Where to install UKI cmdline addons in the root partition

[Lennart Poettering <lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mo, 04.12.23 17:48, Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito (eesposit@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Sorry for the back-to-back emails, but I realized I could use this
> mailing list to bring up another topic related to UKI addons.
>
> This is the same as I wrote in
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/29372 : I think we need some
> agreement to decide that if distros want to ship rpms containing default
> signed UKI addons, they should all go in the same place in the root
> partition.
>
> By putting them there, we offer the user the possibility to keep the ESP
> clean and lightweight (as there is not much space available in there
> IIRC), and the user can simply cp the addons from the root partition
> into the desired ESP to install the addon, and rm to remove them.
>
> But I still think it is important to have some agreement, and document
> it somewhere.
>
> What do you think?

I commented on the github issue. At this time I think more people are
subscribed to that than watch this ML.

Lennart

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