[virt-tools-list] Patch for UEFI support still required?

Marc Deslauriers marc.deslauriers at canonical.com
Sat Apr 19 22:22:01 UTC 2014


Hi Christoph,

On 14-04-19 08:11 AM, Christoph Korn wrote:
> in Ubuntu there is a patch for UEFI support applied which was not forwarded
> upstream because according to the author it is an "ugly hack" [1]. For more
> details please have a look in the bug report [2].
> I am maintainer of an Ubuntu application site called getdeb.net which wants to
> release new versions of packages inside an Ubuntu release. Currently there is
> version 0.9.5 in Ubuntu 14.04 [3] and I want to publish version 1.0.1 on getdeb.
> Now the problem is that the patch does not apply cleanly and I wonder if it is
> still required or if there is a solution which is not so "ugly".

Here's the ugly hack for 1.0.0 if you're interested. It probably applies to 1.0.1.

http://paste.ubuntu.com/7287267/

Marc.





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