On Jul 13, 2017 7:30 PM, "William Hubbs" <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 08:52:23AM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:No one objected to me putting out the release, so it is now available.
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 12:30:12PM +0200, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> > On 07/12/2017 05:42 PM, 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.
> >
> > Although the changes seems sensible, I'm wondering if a news item is
> > necessary for this case versus other documentation and script updates to
> > reflect this change. For one thing it seems it will have minimal effect
> > on a running system and not needing a migration path / configuration
> > updates except in cases where bootloader installs are done; how
> > intuitive is the feedback in this process when it is read-only?
>
> I have no idea; I've never used an efi system.
>
> For people who are not using efi systems, and as long as you don't mess
> with your boot loader, you are correct that this change means nothing.
> There is no migration path and nothing really for a user to do.
>
> This is already documented in NEWS.md upstream and in the ChangeLog.
>
> I can spin up the release in an hour or so, and if there is no need for a
> newsitem, I will consider the newsitem canceled.
I'll give another 24 hours for someone to tell me if they think we still
need a newsitem.
Thanks,
William
We still need documentation updates for packages that use efivarfs, but apparently you don't care.