Thursday, April 27, 2023

Re: [new] sysutils/efivar

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 11:34:11AM +0000, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> As normal user, I'd expect EACCES or EPERM, the current warning misleads:
> $ efivar -l
> efivar: error listing variables: Function not implemented

The code supports multiple backends and without root none of them is
applicable. This leads to ENOSYS on calling any function that deals
with efivars. Changing this can cause differences in behaviour of the
library.

> We point GH_* at the BSD fork and HOMEPAGE at Linux upstream.
> Would it be better to drop HOMEAGE, i.e. stick with the fork and adjust
> its description on GitHub so that actually becomes obvious from reading
> the "homepage"?

Updated HOMEPAGE. Also updated the repo to show `bsd` branch by default
and mentioned the purpose of the fork in the description.

> Are the spaces in SHARED_LIBS intended?

Changed to tabs.

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