Bug 869540 - syslinux-6.02 is available
Summary: syslinux-6.02 is available
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: syslinux
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
: 949328 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-10-24 08:18 UTC by Upstream Release Monitoring
Modified: 2014-05-16 13:47 UTC (History)
14 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-05-16 13:47:16 UTC
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Description Upstream Release Monitoring 2012-10-24 08:18:38 UTC
Latest upstream release: 4.06
Current version in Fedora Rawhide: 4.05
URL: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/

Please consult the package updates policy before you issue an update to a stable branch: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy

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Comment 1 Account closed by user 2012-10-24 12:13:48 UTC
Changes in 4.06:
	* Support for NTFS, by Paulo Alcantara.
	* EXTLINUX: more robust device detection, allow user to override.
	* kontron_wdt.c32: Add a new module to enable the hardware
	  watchdog of some Kontron boards. It allows enabling the watchdog
	  and then booting a given image.
	* HDT updated, and now can display images regarding some detection
	  steps. Add postexec command to run a particular entry after
	  HDT's execution, add silent option and various fixes.
	* ifcpu.c32: Detect hypervisor presence.
	* lua.c32: Add dhcp support and support for native Syslinux
	  functions syslinux_config(), syslinux_ipappend_strings() and
	  syslinux_reboot().
	* isohybrid: Workaround for various EFI systems.
	* pxechn.c32, a PXE NBP chainloader.  More versatile alternative
	  to pxechain.com and resolves the PXELINUX -> WDS issue with
	  Microsoft Windows Server 2008R2 (Gene Cumm).
	* btrfs: Fix booting off of a subvolume.
	* com32: Add device tree support.
	* SYSLINUX: Fix relative paths for VFAT. The CONFIG and APPEND
	  directives now support entirely relative paths.

Comment 2 Upstream Release Monitoring 2012-12-07 09:15:17 UTC
Latest upstream release: 5.00
Current version in Fedora Rawhide: 4.05
URL: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/

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Comment 3 Account closed by user 2012-12-07 10:38:45 UTC
Changes in 5.00:
	* com32: Switched from the COM32 object format to ELF as it is
	  a much more powerful format that allows undefined symbols to
	  be resolved at runtime and dynamic loading of module
	  dependencies, which means modules now become shared object
	  files instead of statically linked binaries - reducing both
	  disk space and runtime memory consumption.
	* core: Split non-core functionality into ldlinux.c32, which
	  is an ELF module loaded by the core that contains everything
	  the core doesn't require to boot the system, e.g. config
	  parser, command-line interface, etc.
	* Replaced __intcall() calls with direct function calls now
	  that we can resolve undefined symbols at runtime, thanks to
	  the ELF object support. Now that we no longer need to go
	  through the 16-bit interrupt mechanism we can make full use
	  of the 32-bit execution environment. This change required
	  reimplementing lots of the 16-bit assembly code from core/
	  in C.
	* com32: __com32.cs_bounce is gone now we always run in a
	  32-bit environment once we execute ldlinux.c32.
	* ldlinux: A new "PATH" directive was added to the ldlinux.c32
	  config parser that specifies a colon-separated list of
	  directories to search when attempting to load modules.
	* ALL: Delete all references to/code for 16-bit COMBOOT files.
	  COMBOOT files (.cbt and .com) are no longer supported under
	  Syslinux.

Comment 4 Upstream Release Monitoring 2013-01-29 10:16:38 UTC
Latest upstream release: 5.01
Current version in Fedora Rawhide: 4.05
URL: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/

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Comment 5 Account closed by the user 2013-05-30 12:20:06 UTC
Is there any wrong in the 5.x tree ?

Comment 6 Upstream Release Monitoring 2013-06-07 08:35:12 UTC
Latest upstream release: 5.10
Current version in Fedora Rawhide: 4.05
URL: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/

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Comment 7 Upstream Release Monitoring 2013-06-20 19:16:55 UTC
Latest upstream release: 6.00
Current version/release in Fedora Rawhide: 4.05-5.fc19
URL: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/

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Comment 8 Upstream Release Monitoring 2013-07-04 16:24:37 UTC
Latest upstream release: 6.01
Current version/release in Fedora Rawhide: 4.05-5.fc19
URL: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/

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Comment 9 Matthew Miller 2013-07-12 14:29:09 UTC
*** Bug 949328 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Peter Jones 2013-07-12 14:55:48 UTC
Right now updating to 6.01 means we need to move to gnu-efi-3.0t.  3.0t breaks shim because there are some ABI (actually /calling convention/ I think) compatibility errors, so there's some debugging on that side that needs to be done before this can be done.

Comment 11 Russ Anderson 2013-07-19 15:19:23 UTC
Peter, is there a BZ to fix gnu-efi-3.0t?  Can you add it as a blocker for this BZ?  Thanks.

Comment 12 Account closed by the user 2013-07-19 19:00:41 UTC
(In reply to Russ Anderson from comment #11)

> Peter, is there a BZ to fix gnu-efi-3.0t?

bug #817792 follows upstream releases.

To see all gnu-efi bugs: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=gnu-efi&product=Fedora

Comment 13 Upstream Release Monitoring 2013-10-14 08:53:37 UTC
Latest upstream release: 6.02
Current version/release in Fedora Rawhide: 4.05-7.fc20
URL: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/

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Comment 14 Account closed by the user 2013-11-10 02:05:42 UTC
(In reply to Peter Jones from comment #10)

> Right now updating to 6.01 means we need to move to gnu-efi-3.0t.  3.0t
> breaks shim because there are some ABI (actually /calling convention/ I
> think) compatibility errors, so there's some debugging on that side that
> needs to be done before this can be done.

gnu-efi already was updated to 3.0u. Is there anything pending ?

Comment 15 Gene Czarcinski 2013-12-28 21:06:24 UTC
Not only is 3.0u out but it fixes the ABI problems:
http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2013-June/020155.html

> FYI, for anyone still running into issues with gnu-efi, a new release is
> now available (3.0u) which includes all the necessary changes to build
> Syslinux 6.x.

So, what is the hangup now?  I thought it was Fedora Policy to stay as close to current upstream as possible in order to minimize rediscovering problems.

Comment 16 Colin Walters 2014-04-04 18:39:10 UTC
Given the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 switch to XFS as default, it'd be nice to pull in the version of syslinux that (claims to) support it.

This could use someone building a test package and running it through some sanity checks; e.g. does the cloud image still work?

Comment 17 Account closed by the user 2014-04-09 18:45:20 UTC
(In reply to Upstream Release Monitoring from comment #13)

> Latest upstream release: 6.02
> Current version/release in Fedora Rawhide: 4.05-7.fc20
> URL: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/

DONE http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=509894

-thank you-


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