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Bug 1997734 - Missing grub2-efi-x64-modules in latest centos9 composes
Summary: Missing grub2-efi-x64-modules in latest centos9 composes
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Classification: Red Hat
Component: grub2
Version: CentOS Stream
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Bootloader engineering team
QA Contact: Release Test Team
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Whiteboard:
: 2005037 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: 1999574 2032235
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-08-25 17:47 UTC by David Vallee Delisle
Modified: 2022-05-17 16:15 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2022-05-17 15:51:00 UTC
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Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-94791 0 None None None 2021-08-25 17:59:08 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker RTT-3755 0 None None None 2021-09-20 08:43:36 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker RTT-3756 0 None None None 2021-09-20 08:43:42 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2022:3925 0 None None None 2022-05-17 15:51:33 UTC

Description David Vallee Delisle 2021-08-25 17:47:50 UTC 
Description of problem:
There's no build of grub2-efi-x64-modules in the latest centos9. Can't find anything that says that this is deprecated or removed. F34 still has a build for this package as well, so I don't see any reason why this is missing.

Maybe it's unrelated but there's some exclusion logs for this package in the compose logs:

 2021-08-25 04:23:49 [DEBUG   ] Excluding (EXCLUDEARCH: ['s390', 's390x']): grub2-efi-x64-modules-2.06~rc1-8.el9.noarch.rpm
Comment 1 Robbie Harwood 2021-09-15 22:20:51 UTC 
This is probably a mistake.  Josh, how do we go about getting that added back in these days?
Comment 2 Robbie Harwood 2021-09-16 15:32:33 UTC 
*** Bug 2005037 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Brian Stinson 2021-09-16 15:51:05 UTC 
I filed this for review: https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/release-engineering/pungi-centos/-/merge_requests/169
Comment 4 Robbie Harwood 2021-09-16 15:57:47 UTC 
Thanks Brian!
Comment 11 Neal Gompa 2021-12-31 15:20:08 UTC 
The ia32 modules packages were missed, I've submitted a MR to fix that: https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/release-engineering/pungi-centos/-/merge_requests/224
Comment 12 Neal Gompa 2021-12-31 15:32:25 UTC 
This is required to make kiwi from EPEL (bug 2032235) installable on EL9.
Comment 13 Josh Boyer 2022-01-04 18:36:50 UTC 
(In reply to Neal Gompa from comment #11)
> The ia32 modules packages were missed, I've submitted a MR to fix that:
> https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/release-engineering/pungi-centos/-/
> merge_requests/224

RHEL doesn't support 32-bit EFI.  It's odd that we're shipping any of the grub2-efi-ia32 subpackages at the moment.  What does kiwi need this for?
Comment 14 Neal Gompa 2022-01-04 18:43:28 UTC 
(In reply to Josh Boyer from comment #13)
> (In reply to Neal Gompa from comment #11)
> > The ia32 modules packages were missed, I've submitted a MR to fix that:
> > https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/release-engineering/pungi-centos/-/
> > merge_requests/224
> 
> RHEL doesn't support 32-bit EFI.  It's odd that we're shipping any of the
> grub2-efi-ia32 subpackages at the moment.  What does kiwi need this for?

Configuring 32-bit UEFI for 64-bit systems. RHEL inherits this from Fedora, which has this support too. RHEL does ship the grub2-efi-ia32 and grub2-efi-ia32-cdboot packages, so shipping the grub2-efi-ia32-modules package should be fine as well.
Comment 15 Josh Boyer 2022-01-04 18:51:30 UTC 
(In reply to Neal Gompa from comment #14)
> (In reply to Josh Boyer from comment #13)
> > (In reply to Neal Gompa from comment #11)
> > > The ia32 modules packages were missed, I've submitted a MR to fix that:
> > > https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/release-engineering/pungi-centos/-/
> > > merge_requests/224
> > 
> > RHEL doesn't support 32-bit EFI.  It's odd that we're shipping any of the
> > grub2-efi-ia32 subpackages at the moment.  What does kiwi need this for?
> 
> Configuring 32-bit UEFI for 64-bit systems. RHEL inherits this from Fedora,
> which has this support too. RHEL does ship the grub2-efi-ia32 and
> grub2-efi-ia32-cdboot packages, so shipping the grub2-efi-ia32-modules
> package should be fine as well.

It ships them in the current Beta.  We may revisit that and remove them before GA.  32-bit UEFI is entirely unsupported in RHEL as far as I know.

Can you configure kiwi in EPEL 9 to not support this?
Comment 16 Neal Gompa 2022-01-04 19:14:52 UTC 
(In reply to Josh Boyer from comment #15)
> (In reply to Neal Gompa from comment #14)
> > (In reply to Josh Boyer from comment #13)
> > > (In reply to Neal Gompa from comment #11)
> > > > The ia32 modules packages were missed, I've submitted a MR to fix that:
> > > > https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/release-engineering/pungi-centos/-/
> > > > merge_requests/224
> > > 
> > > RHEL doesn't support 32-bit EFI.  It's odd that we're shipping any of the
> > > grub2-efi-ia32 subpackages at the moment.  What does kiwi need this for?
> > 
> > Configuring 32-bit UEFI for 64-bit systems. RHEL inherits this from Fedora,
> > which has this support too. RHEL does ship the grub2-efi-ia32 and
> > grub2-efi-ia32-cdboot packages, so shipping the grub2-efi-ia32-modules
> > package should be fine as well.
> 
> It ships them in the current Beta.  We may revisit that and remove them
> before GA.  32-bit UEFI is entirely unsupported in RHEL as far as I know.
> 
> Can you configure kiwi in EPEL 9 to not support this?

I can. I'd prefer not to, but I can do so.

I also need bug 2036365 resolved for kiwi, and if that's resolved while this is stuck, I'll adjust it to not pull these packages in.
Comment 17 Neal Gompa 2022-01-04 19:16:11 UTC 
Also I'd like to note that grub2-efi-ia32-* packages were shipped in RHEL 8 and RHEL 7, too. So dropping the grub2-efi-ia32 support would be new to RHEL 9.
Comment 18 Josh Boyer 2022-01-04 19:25:13 UTC 
(In reply to Neal Gompa from comment #16)
> (In reply to Josh Boyer from comment #15)
> > (In reply to Neal Gompa from comment #14)
> > > (In reply to Josh Boyer from comment #13)
> > > > (In reply to Neal Gompa from comment #11)
> > > > > The ia32 modules packages were missed, I've submitted a MR to fix that:
> > > > > https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/release-engineering/pungi-centos/-/
> > > > > merge_requests/224
> > > > 
> > > > RHEL doesn't support 32-bit EFI.  It's odd that we're shipping any of the
> > > > grub2-efi-ia32 subpackages at the moment.  What does kiwi need this for?
> > > 
> > > Configuring 32-bit UEFI for 64-bit systems. RHEL inherits this from Fedora,
> > > which has this support too. RHEL does ship the grub2-efi-ia32 and
> > > grub2-efi-ia32-cdboot packages, so shipping the grub2-efi-ia32-modules
> > > package should be fine as well.
> > 
> > It ships them in the current Beta.  We may revisit that and remove them
> > before GA.  32-bit UEFI is entirely unsupported in RHEL as far as I know.
> > 
> > Can you configure kiwi in EPEL 9 to not support this?
> 
> I can. I'd prefer not to, but I can do so.

I think that would be the more expedient solution for now.


(In reply to Neal Gompa from comment #17)
> Also I'd like to note that grub2-efi-ia32-* packages were shipped in RHEL 8
> and RHEL 7, too. So dropping the grub2-efi-ia32 support would be new to RHEL
> 9.

Yes, we're aware of what we're shipping in RHEL.
Comment 19 Neal Gompa 2022-01-04 22:17:53 UTC 
I've stripped the dependency for now: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kiwi/c/30abc240ed80ea3a21746f76610e858be1e40279

I would like to add it back eventually, as I deal with some x86_64 appliance hardware that use 32-bit UEFI and it'd be nice to move from EL8 to EL9 there.
Comment 20 Petr Janda 2022-02-16 09:12:27 UTC 
verified that grub2-efi-x64-modules package is included in composes
Comment 22 errata-xmlrpc 2022-05-17 15:51:00 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (new packages: grub2), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:3925
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