Hi Andy, all,

TBH the whole package system - especially with everything having a script and trigger - is a mystery. I went directly from version 106 to version 123 on grub2-*.

EDIT: I've just restored the previous /etc/default/grub from tape, turns out that the ENABLE_BLSCFG has been there since at least November 2021 when I last updated!

Using Post-Transaction-Actions [1], I have scripted me a reset every time yum is run. Note that it does NOT rerun grub2-mkconfig if the flag was seen to have been 'True'.

yum -y install python3-dnf-plugin-post-transaction-actions.noarch

cat > /usr/local/sbin/blscheck.sh <<_"FILE"

#!/bin/bash

if [ -f /etc/default/grub ] ; then grep GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG /etc/default/grub && sed -i.bak -e 's/GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true/GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=false/' /etc/default/grub; fi

_FILE

chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/blscheck.sh

cat > /etc/dnf/plugins/post-transaction-actions.d/bls.action <<_"FILE"

# Reset BLS for Bitfolk machines whenever a grub or kernel trigger occurs

grub2-*:in:/usr/local/sbin/blscheck.sh

kernel-*:in:/usr/local/sbin/blscheck.sh

_FILE

#tested using command:

#dnf install kernel-rpm-macros.noarch

#message:

#post-transaction-actions: GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=false

Thanks

Jamie

[1] https://blog.bensoer.com/how-to-create-post-install-hooks-with-yum/

------ Original Message ------

From "Andy Smith" <andy@bitfolk.com>

To users@lists.bitfolk.com

Date 11/06/2022 23:44:14

Subject Re: [bitfolk] Keep an eye on your CentOS Stream 8 grub.cfg for "blscfg" being introduced

Hi Jamie,

On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 09:29:00PM +0000, Jamie Stallwood wrote:

I can replicate this having just done a yum/dnf update.

Thanks for the digging! Do you know what was installed to trigger

the conversion to blscfg?