Bug 1214358 - mokutil: get rid of perl in modhash
Summary: mokutil: get rid of perl in modhash
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
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Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: Current
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Gary Ching-Pang Lin
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Blocks: 1170066
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Reported: 2023-08-17 11:29 UTC by Ludwig Nussel
Modified: 2023-09-05 06:39 UTC (History)
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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! :-)