From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C1079139694 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 23:04:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D23DD274014; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 23:04:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (mail.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7F48D234075 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 23:04:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oi0-f53.google.com (mail-oi0-f53.google.com [209.85.218.53]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mattst88) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 261D6341D7D for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 23:04:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oi0-f53.google.com with SMTP id x187so32527029oig.3 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 16:04:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: AIVw112rASPYpiJafmByy9jFtRkxzArTfREBXJBLSgGFuWuwFDMZVVMh WLJygeygRICi66U5W+yYxKq4CESQXA== X-Received: by 10.202.108.22 with SMTP id h22mr752536oic.76.1499900675101; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 16:04:35 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.134.197 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 16:04:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20170712214408.GA13328@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> References: <20170712154236.GA10286@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> <20170712214408.GA13328@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> From: Matt Turner Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 16:04:14 -0700 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: openrc-0.28 mounts efivars read only To: gentoo development Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: e6c4480f-a174-4004-8116-b42c1da3470f X-Archives-Hash: ef5d741b4af1b3d9eb58e73607b4fb2d On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 2:44 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 04:03:25PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:42 AM, William Hubbs wrote: >> > OpenRC 0.28 will mount efivars read only by default due to concerns >> > about users bricking systems by writing to this filesystem unexpectedly. >> > >> > Here is the newsitem covering this change. >> > >> > William >> > >> >> This will break boot loader installers, like grub-install and bootctl >> (systemd-boot). Please update any relevant documents on the wiki, or >> find someone who can do it for you. > > I'm not stopping anyone from making those updates, so if someone knows > what needs to be changed, go for it. :-) That's now how this works. You can't leave something as crucial as boot loader installation documentation in a bad state. It's your responsibility to ensure that happens.