Bug 1913299 - Description of grubby RPM says it is meant only for legacy compatibility but grubby is the new official way to change boot options
Summary: Description of grubby RPM says it is meant only for legacy compatibility but ...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grubby
Version: 33
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Peter Jones
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-01-06 13:27 UTC by Jens
Modified: 2021-06-23 08:31 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: grubby-8.40-54.fc35
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Last Closed: 2021-06-23 08:31:44 UTC
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Description Jens 2021-01-06 13:27:43 UTC
Description of problem:
The description of the grubby RPM tells you that it is only to be used for legacy compatibility users with existing users. As per 

https://fedoramagazine.org/setting-kernel-command-line-arguments-with-fedora-30/
and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1725720

it is the official way to change boot options. The wrong description in the RPM might confuse users.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
grubby-8.40-47.fc33.x86_64

How reproducible:
always reproducible

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -qi grubby


Actual results:
$ rpm -qi grubby
Name        : grubby
Version     : 8.40
Release     : 47.fc33
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Mo 04 Jän 2021 13:55:51
Group       : Unspecified
Size        : 62819
License     : GPLv2+
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Mi 29 Jul 2020 04:36:54, Key ID 49fd77499570ff31
Source RPM  : grubby-8.40-47.fc33.src.rpm
Build Date  : Di 28 Jul 2020 22:05:53
Build Host  : buildvm-x86-32.iad2.fedoraproject.org
Packager    : Fedora Project
Vendor      : Fedora Project
URL         : https://github.com/rhinstaller/grubby
Bug URL     : https://bugz.fedoraproject.org/grubby
Summary     : Command line tool for updating bootloader configs
Description :
This package provides a grubby compatibility script that manages
BootLoaderSpec files and is meant to only be used for legacy compatibility
users with existing grubby users.


Expected results:
The description should not tell you that it is only for legacy compatibility purposes.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2021-06-23 08:31:04 UTC
FEDORA-2021-fd329b75a3 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 35. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-fd329b75a3

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2021-06-23 08:31:44 UTC
FEDORA-2021-fd329b75a3 has been pushed to the Fedora 35 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.


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