Bug 698892

Summary:	sys-apps/memtest86+ and <sys-apps/memtest86-5: Obsolete in many ways, but Gentoo doesn't warn
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Teika kazura <teika>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Teika kazura 2019-10-30 08:03:41 UTC

memtest86+ and memtest86 < 5.0 don't support UEFI nor DDR4[1], becoming obsolete in many ways. However Gentoo users have no chance of knowing it upon emerging them. At the very least, einfo in pkg_postinst should tell it.

[1] See the "history" page in memtest86.com, https://www.memtest86.com/history.htm, in particular the section "MemTest86 and MemTest86+" and the first few sentences in the next section.

BTW bug#660504 is a bump request to recent memtest86.

Thanks Gentoo developers. Best regards.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2021-09-16 14:56:16 UTC

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=dbcddac461dd1c09921eef5f2b8fcdb7ac142077

commit dbcddac461dd1c09921eef5f2b8fcdb7ac142077
Author:     Ben Kohler <bkohler@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-09-16 14:55:19 +0000
Commit:     Ben Kohler <bkohler@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2021-09-16 14:56:09 +0000

    sys-apps/memtest86+: warn of EFI incompatibility
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/698892
    
    Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.23, Repoman-3.0.3
    Signed-off-by: Ben Kohler <bkohler@gentoo.org>

 sys-apps/memtest86+/memtest86+-5.31b-r1.ebuild | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)