Re: [PATCH] xen: Create EFI_VENDOR directory

[Ian Jackson <iwj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jan Beulich writes ("Re: [PATCH] xen: Create EFI_VENDOR directory"):
> On 23.03.2021 13:34, Jason Andryuk wrote:
...
> > On Fedora, RPMs drop EFI binaries directly into /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/.
> > grub, shim, fwupdate and xen are all packaged that way.  It seems
> > reasonable to have those important binaries tracked by the package
> > manager.
> > 
> > Does SuSE populate EFI_VENDOR from EFI_DIR when some boot loader
> > script is called?
> 
> Yes. And back at the time, when I consulted our EFI person, I was left
> with the impression that this is the only reasonable approach. The
> primary reason, as said, was that the EFI partition as a whole may get
> rebuilt perhaps even from scratch at any point. Hence it's not
> reasonable to expect package-managed files to live there.

I agree with this analysis but it is for people like Fedora to decide
how they want to build their packages.

There is also the case of ad-hoc packages (eg our "make debball")
which the user might reasonably choose to have dump things in the EFI
system partition.

Conversely, I see no downside to the mkdir.  Jan, is there some actual
harm in it ?  If not, we should be accomodating to people's build and
packaging strategies even if we don't entirely approve of them.

Thanks,
Ian.