Bug 1090083

Summary:	Move modules to /usr/lib, have Anaconda copy them once, don't update bootloader in %post
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Colin Walters <walters>
Component:	syslinux	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	22	CC:	butirsky, mattdm, pjones
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Description Colin Walters 2014-04-22 14:08:35 UTC

GRUB2 ships its extra data in /usr/lib, and "grub2-install" copies it to /boot.

From that point on, we don't change it when the RPM changes.  A user can still reinvoke grub2-install of course.

And from a quick conversation with Peter Jones, we think this is the model we should use for all bootloaders.

In other words, we need to:

1) Move the extlinux modules to /usr/lib
2) Change extlinux --update to copy them to /boot
3) Remove the %post from the spec file

Comment 1 Peter Jones 2014-04-22 15:13:44 UTC

(In reply to Colin Walters from comment #0)

> And from a quick conversation with Peter Jones, we think this is the model
> we should use for all bootloaders.

All *BIOS* style bootloaders.  That is, where installation to a disk is the immediate cause of activation.

Comment 2 Colin Walters 2014-04-22 17:04:53 UTC

Previous context to this for grub2 looks like:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735259

Ah ok, and for EFI we assume at the RPM installation time that /boot/efi is mounted, and have RPM itself write.

In contrast again, gummiboot appears to ship its data in /usr/lib/gummiboot, and it has a %post to update the ESP.

Would it make sense to sync those up and have grub2-efi have a %post to update the ESP?

Or sync up with the BIOS path and only touch the ESP at installation time by default, and allow admins a tool to reinstall?

Comment 3 Jaroslav Reznik 2015-03-03 15:43:21 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 22 development cycle.
Changing version to '22'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora22

Comment 4 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 11:23:57 UTC

Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
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