Summary: | sys-boot/syslinux - Display elog messages when an existing installation was updated | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) <whissi> |
Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh> |
Status: | UNCONFIRMED --- | ||
Severity: | enhancement | CC: | base-system, bertrand, gentoo |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED)
2013-06-25 14:06:20 UTC
There is no immediate action necessary. The old version of syslinux that is installed to /boot will continue to work, even if the syslinux package is updated. There is already one upgrade message if you upgrade from the current stable version 4.06 to 5.10, per bug 447214. It would really be helpful to at least give an elog message suggestion to run syslinux --update (or extlinux --update or ...). A syslinux update happens so rarely that a use (such as me) doesn’t remember the steps needed to do an upgrade. Regarding the message for the >5 linking issue: * it talks about the installation directory: make it clear that this is /boot (or some such) and not /usr/share/syslinux (where portage installs syslinux) * when I do what the message says, I get: # LD_LIBRARY_PATH="." ldd *.c32 ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for `./ldlinux.c32' statically linked It would be useful to have a pointer that makes it clear this is ok (I guess it is, as my system rebooted correctly) |