On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 07:53:52PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Sun, 17 Dec 2023, 17:45 dann frazier, <da...@dannf.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 08:58:23PM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 05:54:23 -0700 dann frazier <da...@dannf.org> > > > wrote: > > > > Package: wnpp > > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Owner: dann frazier <da...@debian.org> > > > > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org > > > > > > > > * Package name : virt-firmware > > > > Version : 23.10 > > > > Upstream Contact: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> > > > > * URL : https://gitlab.com/kraxel/virt-firmware > > > > * License : GPL-2+ > > > > Programming Lang: Python > > > > Description : Tools for manipulating edk2 (ovmf/qemu-efi) > > > firmware images > > > > > > > > This is a collection of tools for edk2 firmware images. They support > > > > decoding and printing the content of firmware volumes. Variable > > > stores > > > > (e.g. OVMF_VARS.fd) can be modified, for example to enroll secure > > > boot > > > > certificates. Tools included: > > > > > > > > virt-fw-dump - Decodes and prints the content of firmware volumes. > > > > > > > > virt-fw-vars - Print and edit variable store volumes. Currently > > > focused on > > > > enrolling certificates and enabling secure boot. > > > > > > > > virt-fw-sigdb - Print and edit EFI signature database files. > > > > > > > > host-efi-vars - Read efi variables from linux efivarfs and > > > decode/print them. > > > > > > > > kernel-bootcfg - Manage efi boot configuration for UKIs (unified > > > kernel > > > > images) when using direct boot (without boot loader > > > like > > > > grub or systemd-boot). > > > > > > > > pe-dumpinfo - Information dump for pe (the format used by EFI) > > > binaries. > > > > > > > > pe-listsigs - List signatures and certificate chain for pe binaries. > > > Can also > > > > extract certificates & signatures. > > > > > > > > > > > > My immediate motivation for packaging this is that, as the maintainer > > > of > > > > the edk2 package, I need to remove some deprecated image types - > > > specifically > > > > the OVMF 2M images. These utilities can help users migrate their VMs > > > to > > > > supported types by dumping/loading the variable stores. > > > > > > > > In the future, I expect edk2 packaging to evolve into using these > > > tools > > > > to modify images out-of-band, instead of launching QEMU instances to > > > > modify them in-band as part of the build. > > > > > > > > > > Hello Dann, > > > > > > I find myself in need of this package for some CI usage as well, are > > > you planning to work on this soon? Do you need any help? > > > > Hi Luca, > > > > Apologies for the delayed response. I believe I have completed the > > packaging and am prepared to upload: > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/dannf/virt-firmware > > > > Feel free to review and let me know if you have any feedback. > > > > -dann > > > > Looks good to me, thanks. Ship it!
Shipped :) -dann
