Bug#826045: systemd-boot: New kernels are not automatically added

[dirdi]

Package: systemd
Version: 245.6-1
Followup-For: Bug #826045


Just installed the scripts provided by Andre and they work like a charm,
with one minor issue:

I had to create the /efi/<Machine-ID> directory manually:
# mkdir "/efi/$(cat /etc/machine-id)"

Without the directory the configuration of the kernel packages fail. Therefore
I would suggest to extend the postinst.systemd-bootd script to create the
necessary directory if it does not exist.

May I also add that I would love to see this feature request eventually being
implemented. I do not see any disadvantages beside the occupation of ~41 MiB
per installed kernel on the ESP partition. On the other hand it makes the
presence of a dedicated bootmanager obsolete which in turn safes ~110 MiB on
the root partition in case of GRUB2.


-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  adduser                          3.118
ii  libacl1                          2.2.53-8
ii  libapparmor1                     2.13.4-3
ii  libaudit1                        1:2.8.5-3+b1
ii  libblkid1                        2.35.2-4
ii  libc6                            2.30-8
ii  libcap2                          1:2.36-1
ii  libcrypt1                        1:4.4.16-1
ii  libcryptsetup12                  2:2.3.3-1
ii  libgcrypt20                      1.8.5-5
ii  libgnutls30                      3.6.14-2
ii  libgpg-error0                    1.38-1
ii  libidn2-0                        2.3.0-1
ii  libip4tc2                        1.8.5-2
hi  libkmod2                         26-3
ii  liblz4-1                         1.9.2-2
ii  liblzma5                         5.2.4-1+b1
ii  libmount1                        2.35.2-4
ii  libpam0g                         1.3.1-5
ii  libpcre2-8-0                     10.34-7
ii  libseccomp2                      2.4.3-1+b1
ii  libselinux1                      3.0-1+b3
ii  libsystemd0                      245.6-1
ii  mount                            2.35.2-4
ii  systemd-timesyncd [time-daemon]  245.6-1
ii  util-linux                       2.35.2-4

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus  1.12.18-1

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
ii  policykit-1        0.105-26
pn  systemd-container  <none>

Versions of packages systemd is related to:
pn  dracut           <none>
ii  initramfs-tools  0.137
ii  libnss-systemd   245.6-1
ii  libpam-systemd   245.6-1
ii  udev             245.6-1

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