386119 – sys-boot/grub-1.99-r2 add RDEPEND on efibootmgr for efi GRUB_PLATFORM

Bug 386119 - sys-boot/grub-1.99-r2 add RDEPEND on efibootmgr for efi GRUB_PLATFORM

Summary: sys-boot/grub-1.99-r2 add RDEPEND on efibootmgr for efi GRUB_PLATFORM

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2011-10-07 18:11 UTC by Chris Mayo
Modified:	2011-10-10 16:25 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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patch to ebuild (grub-1.99-r2.ebuild-platform.patch,731 bytes, text/plain) 2011-10-07 18:11 UTC, Chris Mayo	Details
patch to ebuild (grub-1.99-r2.ebuild-efibootmgr.patch,952 bytes, patch) 2011-10-07 18:12 UTC, Chris Mayo	Details \| Diff
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Description Chris Mayo 2011-10-07 18:11:22 UTC

Created attachment 289095 [details]
patch to ebuild

grub2-install can use efibootmgr to automatically configure the EFI Boot Manager for you.

Patch attached for ebuild, don't know if this is the right way to do it but it works for me. Can efi-32 use efibootmgr too?

Comment 1 Chris Mayo 2011-10-07 18:12:25 UTC

Created attachment 289097 [details, diff]
patch to ebuild

Comment 2 Robin Johnson archtester

2011-10-09 20:28:17 UTC

You can use EFI without efibootmgr perfectly fine, so I don't see why this is needed. I have it set up on my new laptop (Thinkpad X220).

Comment 3 Chris Mayo 2011-10-10 16:25:56 UTC

Another reason against it would be that even if you did use it once, you could then unemerge it because as long as you didn't change any configuration new grub2-install generated .efi files would still be in the same location.