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Re: Not installing files to /boot



> Dear Debian kernel maintainers,
> 
> people wanting to give systemd-boot a try cannot currently follow the
> upstream
> recommended setup [1] that mounts a FAT-formatted partition (either
> the XBOOTLDR
> partition from the spec or ESP [2]) to /boot/, since dpkg requires a
> lot of
> things from the underlying filesystem that FAT does not support [3].
> 
> This could be worked around by shipping the files that are currently
> installed
> to /boot/ to /usr/lib/ instead, e.g.
> /usr/lib/modules/$KERNEL_VERSION/ as Arch
> and Fedora do, and if necessary copy the files into /boot/ in a
> postinst script
> and remove them likewise, as Fedora does.
> 
> I know this is probably too late in the cycle for bookworm, but I
> wanted to get
> a discussion on this started in time for trixie.

One additional advantage of this would be moving further toward the
direction of having packages/distro artifacts shipping only files under
/usr and the rest being determined locally at install/image build time.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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