openSUSE / openSUSE/update-bootloader

open discussion on collaborating on bootupd

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Description

In Fedora/ostree derivatives we use https://github.com/coreos/bootupd/ which overlaps with this project.

It's currently a dependency of bootc which I'd like to make cross platform (definitely supporting OpenSUSE there).

In https://github.com/coreos/bootupd/issues/468#issuecomment-2491799905 I was poking at things more.

Do you have any initial thoughts on this? On the implementation side I've been heavily trying to invest in using Rust for system-critical stuff, I think it's the right language for operating system update tools.

But language aside...would it make sense to try to have a "perl-bootloader" backend for bootupd perhaps?

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Research direction

No implementation files or tests are named. Start by comparing this project with coreos/bootupd and the bootc dependency described in the issue, then determine whether a Perl bootloader backend is wanted; done criteria are not defined until the collaboration discussion reaches a decision.

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Assessment

Tech stack
perl, rust, shell
Domain
operating-systems, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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