Bug 426598 – sys-boot/gummiboot-9999: new package

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Christopher Friedt 2012-07-14 14:42:20 UTC]

Ask and ye shall receive!

https://plus.google.com/u/0/111049168280159033135/posts/5xcT4xNESeh

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Christopher Friedt 2012-07-14 14:43:51 UTC]

Created attachment 318160 [details]
gnu-efi-3.0q.ebuild

[Comment 2 Christopher Friedt 2012-07-14 14:45:35 UTC]

Created attachment 318162 [details, diff]
Makefile.patch

required by gummiboot . adds gentoo-corrected locations of lds and crt0, and adds an install target to copy gummiboot.efi to $(PREFIX)/share/gummiboot

[Comment 3 Christopher Friedt 2012-07-14 14:46:22 UTC]

Created attachment 318164 [details]
gummiboot-9999.ebuild

[Comment 4 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2012-07-14 15:08:35 UTC]

Thanks Christopher :)

I'll check it out right now but I'm unable to work on this until I go back to the US (next week) so this is likely going to enter testing, for me, in ten days or so.

[Comment 5 avx 2012-09-12 19:25:48 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Thanks Christopher :)
> 
> I'll check it out right now but I'm unable to work on this until I go back
> to the US (next week) so this is likely going to enter testing, for me, in
> ten days or so.

Almost two months now, any news on this? Tried compiling rEFInd against the current version in portage, but it failed because of the outdated version.

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2012-11-25 04:17:21 UTC]

don't post multiple packages to the same bug

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2012-11-25 04:17:40 UTC]

Comment on attachment 318160 [details]
gnu-efi-3.0q.ebuild

please submit diffs, not entire files

[Comment 8 Konstantin (elxa) 2013-03-23 18:22:34 UTC]

does someone have a (currently) working ebuild/patch?

[Comment 9 Elias Probst 2013-12-24 00:03:07 UTC]

(In reply to Konstantin from comment #8)
> does someone have a (currently) working ebuild/patch?

There is one in the 'gentoo-zh' overlay.

[Comment 10 Michał Górny 2014-01-16 17:57:18 UTC]

I may take this since I'm using it for a while. Though I've installed it using Arch :).

[Comment 11 Elias Probst 2014-06-06 20:00:41 UTC]

Created attachment 378390 [details]
ebuild for sys-boot/gummiboot-9999

This ebuild works for me (also booted using gummiboot) using current git master.

- the makefile patch isn't needed anymore
- by setting the dependency on sys-boot/gnu-efi to =3.0s no workaround for the issues described in bug#498666 is needed

[Comment 12 J. García 2014-08-02 03:47:55 UTC]

Created attachment 382052 [details]
ebuild for sys-boot/gummiboot-45

This is the latest relase of gummiboot, the ebuild also checks for CONFIG_EFI_STUB enabled in kernel configuration as this is required to boot a kernel with gummiboot.

[Comment 13 J. García 2014-08-02 03:50:14 UTC]

Created attachment 382054 [details]
Live ebuild for sys-boot/gummiboot

Live ebuild using attachment 382052 [details] as base

[Comment 14 Michał Górny 2014-08-02 07:17:31 UTC]

Thanks for all the work, I'll take it from here.

[Comment 15 Michał Górny 2014-08-02 07:55:45 UTC]

+*gummiboot-9999 (02 Aug 2014)
+*gummiboot-45 (02 Aug 2014)
+
+  02 Aug 2014; Michał Górny <[e-mail]> +gummiboot-45.ebuild,
+  +gummiboot-9999.ebuild, +metadata.xml:
+  Introduce gummiboot, the EFI boot manager. Bug #426598. Thanks to Elias Probst
+  and J. García for all the work.

Currently depends on =gnu-efi-3.0s as suggested by Elias. Once I find out whether the change in 3.0u was intentional or a mistake, I will decide how to proceed further.