On 2020-07-02 13:08, Peter Robinson wrote:
I suppose "very good state" is a relative term, upstream
hasn't seen a
release since 2016 so is essentially "unmaintained", not sure it
supports secure boot, probably has a bunch of CVEs (see point about
maintenance). I think it only lives on in Fedora is because I think
it's used for some (.iso?) install method, AFIACT it's eventually
glued back together when it fails to build and is generally ignored.
As "very good state" I meant that the subpackages contain everything
needed, and the binaries work flawlessly for the above use cases.
Before, in some cases I was forced to use binaries from the upstream
tarball.
I started to collect the sources (the upstream repo, various branches
like [1]), Fedora patchset, the "dist-gits" from other distributions
listed in Repology [2], bug trackers), and will try to give more
informed answer to your questions once I manage to asemble something ala
src-git with pair of branches (patches/applied) per distribution.
Kind Regards,
Alek
[1]
https://github.com/awalls-cx18/syslinux/commits/master
[2]
https://repology.org/project/syslinux/versions