On Do, 28.07.22 10:25, Chris Adams (linux@cmadams.net) wrote:
Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering mzerqung@0pointer.de said:
Given the overlap of the Fedora/RH boot loader folks and the shim folks, I think there's definitely an avenue to get systemd-boot signed as payload for SHIM, as alternative to Grub. If Fedora wants this, and has the man power for it, it should be a quite a reachable goal, given that sd-boot has only a tiny fraction of the code footprint that Grub has.
So, I went to look a little more at systemd-boot/sd-boot... and noticed the packaging is really odd in Fedora. Why is it shoved into the systemd-udev RPM? It seems that systemd-boot should be its own subpackage.
I think this was mostly done because the rpm split originally done was to separate out parts that you need when booting systemd in a container from those which you do not need there. udev/sd-boot is useless in a container, hence it was split out, and was turned into a seperate new rpm, named after one of the most prominent components.
I am not involved in systemd packaging anymore, but I am sure if you make your case on rhbz Zbigniew or so will consider your case.
Lennart
-- Lennart Poettering, Berlin