Bug 1214358

Summary:	mokutil: get rid of perl in modhash
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Ludwig Nussel <lnussel>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Gary Ching-Pang Lin <glin>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	jlee
Version:	Current
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Bug Blocks:	1170066

Description Ludwig Nussel 2023-08-17 11:29:42 UTC

In order to be able to remove Perl from the minimal system at some point we need to get rid of tools using perl. The modhash script in the mokutil package is written in Perl. Is the tool still needed, and if so how about rewriting it in eg shell, C or Rust?

Comment 1 Gary Ching-Pang Lin 2023-08-18 06:36:41 UTC

modhash is mainly for generating the hash of a kernel module so that the user can enroll the hash into MokListX, but I think the tool is rarely used since it's not effective to block a kernel module by hash. Will discuss with Joey about the future of modhash.

Comment 2 Ludwig Nussel 2023-09-04 08:40:11 UTC

So we could just drop it?

Comment 3 Gary Ching-Pang Lin 2023-09-05 01:59:25 UTC

The script is already dropped in factory :)

Comment 4 Ludwig Nussel 2023-09-05 06:39:06 UTC

Wonderful, thanks! :-)