* Andrei Borzenkov (arvidjaar@gmail.com) [20151127 16:11]:

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:

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perl-Bootloader, the package handling our boot loader setup for nearly fifty years now

Really? How old Linus is?

I guess he meant fifteen ;-) Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

On 11/28/2015 04:53 PM, Stefan Seyfried wrote:

But it surely feels like fifty. ......

wiki says : Linus Benedict Torvalds born: December 28, 1969 (age 45) Helsinki, Finland ............ WBR .... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 17:19:25 +0100 Michal Marek wrote:

Dne 27.11.2015 v 15:46 Steffen Winterfeldt napsal(a):

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perl-Bootloader, the package handling our boot loader setup for nearly fifty years now, is going bye-bye.

As we are consolidating on grub2 it's no longer necessary to keep such a huge library around.

Instead, there are now small shell scripts in /usr/lib/bootloader/ that are used to keep the update-bootloader and bootloader_entry scripts working. [...] If you are using the perl-Bootloader library in your package, now is a good moment to panic.

As far as the kernel and dracut are concerned, we test for the existence of bootload_entry and update-bootloader, respectively, before calling them. Is going to work or should I continue panicking?

Thanks, Michal

It will be still there exactly as layer for kernel update. It will be simple script, that just read what bootlaoder is used and if so, then call script for given bootloader to inform, that kernel changed. So no panic needed. Josef -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

On 2015-11-30 11:08, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:

On Friday 2015-11-27 17:19, Michal Marek wrote:

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Dne 27.11.2015 v 15:46 Steffen Winterfeldt napsal(a):

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perl-Bootloader, the package handling our boot loader setup for nearly fifty years now, is going bye-bye.

As we are consolidating on grub2 it's no longer necessary to keep such a huge library around.

Instead, there are now small shell scripts in /usr/lib/bootloader/ that are used to keep the update-bootloader and bootloader_entry scripts working. [...] If you are using the perl-Bootloader library in your package, now is a good moment to panic.

As far as the kernel and dracut are concerned, we test for the existence of bootload_entry and update-bootloader, respectively, before calling them. Is going to work or should I continue panicking?

This continues to work.

Great. I will leave the calls in place, to make it easy to test the kernel on old systems with grub1. Michal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org