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 AA6C2139694 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 00:09:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2AEA91FC014; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 00:09:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pietjepuk.verfeiert.org (unknown [193.24.209.249]) (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 CB4F71FC006 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 00:09:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from p5dcdda9e.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([93.205.218.158] helo=[192.168.0.110]) (Authed sender Sven 'DarKRaveR' Eschenberg) by postol.eschenberg.eu via ESMTPSA (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1dVoDn-000730-JS for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 02:12:39 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: openrc-0.28 mounts efivars read only To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20170712154236.GA10286@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> From: DarKRaveR Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 02:09:08 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 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 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e1fc1e88-cebb-45d9-8ad5-08dea1a27e28 X-Archives-Hash: d3bd3732136a73977084b9fc10343457 Am 12.07.2017 um 22:03 schrieb Mike Gilbert: > 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. > Not only bootloader installers. It will break things like efibootmgr which can be used to change EFI bootmanager's behavior/configuration. I am not sure how sane these tools react when efivar is RO. Regards -Sven