Wednesday, May 03, 2023

Re: [new] sysutils/efivar

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 04:00:51PM +0300, Sergii Dmytruk wrote:
> 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.

Snapshots from 28.04. and 03.05. no longer panic on my Intel T14g3,
--list and --print work as expected.

OK to import?

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