Gentoo's GNU-EFI is at version 3.0i, released in September of 2009 (2.5 years ago). The current version is 3.0p, released in December of 2012. Version 3.0p adds many important improvements for those doing EFI development work. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Emerge gnu-efi package 2. Check version number Actual Results: Version 3.0i installed Expected Results: Something less ancient installed
Hi, in fact, gnu-efi-3.0q is the current version since 2012-04-30. I copied the ebuild of gnu-efi-3.0g into my local overlay and it compiled successfully. Some programs like the new minimalistic UEFI bootloader gummiboot ( http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/gummiboot) do not compile with 3.0i, a newer version is required. I have one other request though: some programs (I take gummiboot as an example again) expect some binaries to be installed in /usr/lib64/gnuefi, while Gentoo installs them in /usr/lib64. I temporarily solved the problem by putting a symlink gnuefi -> . into /usr/lib64. Could the ebuild be modified to create this symlink without user intervention?
Please don't cc arch teams on your own
Ah OK sorry. As gnuefi becomes more important for amd64 nowadays, I thought it would be a good idea to let the amd64 arch team know about this bug. Sorry, I won't do it again :)
should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report! Commit message: Version bump http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-boot/gnu-efi/gnu-efi-3.0s.ebuild?rev=1.1
