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 TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BF6BB158094 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:20:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD6F8E0891; Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:20:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01a.sbp.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01a.sbp.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6C9CEE0870 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:20:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01a.sbp.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1odW3V-0003z2-Ts for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:20:49 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-boot on an openrc system Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 13:20:49 +0100 Message-ID: <12072270.O9o76ZdvQC@wstn> In-Reply-To: <20220928110519.rl4svyy5h23adsh3@pygoscelis> References: <4442453.LvFx2qVVIh@wstn> <20220928110519.rl4svyy5h23adsh3@pygoscelis> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01a-IP: [82.69.80.10] Feedback-ID: 82.69.80.10 X-Archives-Salt: a076c9fd-c471-43fc-be67-36d2bc53cced X-Archives-Hash: fb67c8696e359f6f3703e4660f767b20 On Wednesday, 28 September 2022 12:05:19 BST Nils Freydank wrote: > Hi Peter, > > long story short: AFAICT it's a deprecated or moved configuration entry > inside the file /etc/machine-info and should be safe to just delete, maybe > even with the whole file machine-info itself. > > On my machine with openrc and systemd-boot I don't even have > /etc/machine-info at all and things work fine together. To me it looks as > the variable was just thrown out of the machine-info file and in case you > would need it you should put it into /etc/kernel/install.conf. > > I don't know which software uses the string. If you compile your kernel > manually or using the gentoo-kernel packages it seems to be not necessary. > > (But as always when taking advice from strangers on the internet: First make > a backup, have a live medium for recovery at hand and test it yourself.) Thanks Nils. Looking more carefully, I see only one machine has an /etc/machine-info. I've moved it and I no longer get the warning. Simple as that, eh? -- Regards, Peter.