Re: trying to understand how the /boot/loader symlink is supposed to work.

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018, at 5:39 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Sure it has.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1293725

Ok yeah, sorry I'd forgotten about that.  

> rpm -q reports a version that does not actually match the bootloader
> being used. That is a real trust loss problem in versioning. Not only
> am I told I have version X when I don't, I also have no
> straightforward or build-in way of learning what version I really do
> have.

You're absolutely right.  On the other hand we made updates transactional
for everything else...

> The idea we'd have to compose new installation media, and then clean
> install the OS to fix something like this is not at all convincing.

We have easier solutions than that; I'll comment in the above BZ but basically 
nothing stops one from just copying the files manually into the ESP.