Bug 412645

Summary:	sys-boot/gnu-efi-3.0s version bump
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Rod Smith <rodsmith>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	IA-64 team <ia64>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	oeffentlicheszeug
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-efi/
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Rod Smith 2012-04-19 14:57:28 UTC

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

Comment 1 Manuel Danisch 2012-07-08 13:56:35 UTC

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?

Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2012-07-08 14:20:31 UTC

Please don't cc arch teams on your own

Comment 3 Manuel Danisch 2012-07-08 14:32:02 UTC

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 :)

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-11-25 04:26:08 UTC

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