[syslinux] Bootloader data in /boot vs package systems (and atomic updates)

Gene Cumm
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:23:57 -0000

On Apr 24, 2014 3:19 AM, "Ferenc Wagner" <wferi at niif.hu>
wrote:
>
> Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> writes:

> > However, syslinux relies on loadable modules in /boot.  At present in
> > Fedora at least, the RPM package updates these, and it has a %post to
> > ensure that when a newer version of extlinux is installed, we update
> > both the boot modules and the MBR.

> I don't think vanilla extlinux (or generally, Syslinux) has anything to
> do with this.

syslinux.spec.in here:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/boot/syslinux/syslinux.git/tree/syslinux.spec.in

--Gene