[arch-releng] [arch-install-scripts] [PATCH] common: mount efivarfs if possible, but don't bail out if it fails

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 14.11.2013 20:58, schrieb Dave Reisner:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 07:15:31PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>> Installing EFI bootloaders during pacstrap is broken right now, as is
>> installing manually in arch-chroot. Therefore, mount efivarfs if the
>> host kernel supports it.
>> ---
> 
> Thanks, I pushed a different version of this patch which uses a new
> convenience function I added, mount_conditionally:
> 
> https://projects.archlinux.org/arch-install-scripts.git/commit/?id=8f2bd395e
> https://projects.archlinux.org/arch-install-scripts.git/commit/?id=c746f87fc

The last patch will still bail out if /sys/firmware/efi/efivars exists,
but mounting efivarfs fails for some odd reason. While not mounting
efivarfs is an undesirable situation, bailing out completely due to this
failure is worse IMO.

That's why I originally added '{ cmd || true } &&'


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