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Drop instructions to update grub2-efi #3554

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@ekohl ekohl commented Jan 8, 2025

What changes are you introducing?

As the title says: it drops the manual instruction to install/update the grub2-efi package.

Why are you introducing these changes? (Explanation, links to references, issues, etc.)

As far as I can tell this was needed in the past because RHEL 7.9 contained an updated grub2-efi with support for HTTPBoot. Now that EL7 has been dropped, this is irrelevant and any installed version will do. The installer when enabling the tftp feature the already guarantees that the package is installed so the instruction can be dropped.

Anything else to add? (Considerations, potential downsides, alternative solutions you have explored, etc.)

I only selected Foreman 3.13 as a cherry pick so we don't modify existing Satellite releases, but it's probably safe there as well.

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  • I am okay with my commits getting squashed when you merge this PR.
  • I am familiar with the contributing guidelines.

Please cherry-pick my commits into:

  • Foreman 3.13/Katello 4.15
  • Foreman 3.12/Katello 4.14 (Satellite 6.16)
  • Foreman 3.11/Katello 4.13 (orcharhino 6.11 on EL8 only; orcharhino 7.0 on EL8+EL9)
  • Foreman 3.10/Katello 4.12
  • Foreman 3.9/Katello 4.11 (Satellite 6.15; orcharhino 6.8/6.9/6.10)
  • Foreman 3.8/Katello 4.10
  • Foreman 3.7/Katello 4.9 (Satellite 6.14)
  • We do not accept PRs for Foreman older than 3.7.

As far as I can tell this was needed in the past because RHEL 7.9
contained an updated grub2-efi with support for HTTPBoot. Now that EL7
has been dropped, this is irrelevant and any installed version will do.
The installer when enabling the tftp feature the already guarantees that
the package is installed so the instruction can be dropped.
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diff LGTM, I cannot comment much about the package itself. I know that Foreman/Katello 3.13+ runs on EL9 only. So the argument that we can remove it because this is a relic from the time when Smart Proxies ran on EL7 makes sense to me.

@maximiliankolb maximiliankolb added the style review done No issues from docs style/grammar perspective label Jan 9, 2025
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apinnick commented Jan 9, 2025

@Lennonka FYI

@Lennonka Lennonka merged commit fd88b88 into theforeman:master Jan 20, 2025
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Cherry picked:

@ekohl ekohl deleted the drop-instructions-for-grub2-efi branch January 20, 2025 20:32
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