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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : rEFInd
Version : 0.10.3
Upstream Author : Roderick W. Smith <rodsm...@rodsbooks.com>
* URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/
* License : BSD-3-clause and GPL-3+
Programming Lang: C
Description : boot manager for EFI-based computers
A graphical boot manager for EFI- and UEFI-based computers, such as all
Intel-based Macs and recent (most 2011 and later) PCs. rEFInd presents a
boot menu showing all the EFI boot loaders on the EFI-accessible
partitions, and optionally BIOS-bootable partitions on Macs and BIOS boot
entries on UEFI PCs with CSMs. EFI-compatbile OSes, including Linux,
provide boot loaders that rEFInd can detect and launch. rEFInd can launch
Linux EFI boot loaders such as ELILO, GRUB Legacy, GRUB 2, and 3.3.0 and
later kernels with EFI stub support. EFI filesystem drivers for ext2/3/4fs,
ReiserFS, Btrfs, NTFS, HFS+, and ISO-9660 enable rEFInd to read boot
loaders from these filesystems, too. rEFInd's ability to detect boot
loaders at runtime makes it very easy to use, particularly when paired with
Linux kernels that provide EFI stub support.
Ubuntu needs-packaging:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1136112
rEFInd is a fork of the rEFIt boot manager. Like rEFIt, rEFInd can
auto-detect your installed EFI boot loaders and it presents a pretty GUI
menu of boot options. rEFInd goes beyond rEFIt in that rEFInd better
handles systems with many boot loaders, gives better control over the
boot loader search process, and provides the ability for users to define
their own boot loader entries.
Ubuntu PPA package offered by the upstream
https://launchpad.net/~rodsmith/+archive/ubuntu/refind
Last updated: 2016-04-24
Very nice work :-) compat=9 and DEP-5 copyright
Really, it seems we only need to rebuild to upload.
Upstream:
Rod Smith is also the upstream of gdisk aleady packaged in Debian and
has extensive knowledge on booting related topcs as documented in:
http://www.rodsbooks.com/
http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/
== NOTE ==
Debian removed refit due to FTBFS:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/refit
This was a popular Mactel boot selector.
The original refit web site recommens to use refined now:
http://refit.sourceforge.net/
2013-03-29: As you may have noticed, rEFIt is no longer actively
maintained. Please check out rEFInd, a fork that is maintaned and
under active development.
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There is already ITP 715426.
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