Before this commit the user was supposed to give the -e cmdline parameter
to run the EFI conversion when necessary. But it was missing in the getopts
parameter list, so it didn't work.
Instead of fixing it, I opted to remove the -e parameter alltogether and
automatically detect if the system is running on EFI or not. Because if the
user should forget to give -e on an EFI system, it would result in an unbootable
system without any bootmanager installed. Fixing this situation takes time and
requires some sysadmin skills, so we should take steps to avoid this situation.
Detecting if the system runs on EFI or not can reliably done by checking for
/sys/firmware/efi/.
This is for two reaons:
1. There have been a number of complaints about the color blue. For now I
can't get reasonable agreement on which color to make informative messages and
it will differ depending on what the background color is of a person's terminal.
2. Currently the log is generated simply by splitting stdout and stderr. That
means that color codes go to the log, which is less than ideal. We need
separate logging routines that don't send the color codes but for now turning
off color will suffice.
This has been accomplished simply by commenting out the tput assignments at the
beginning of the script. It is likely that osme form of color support will go
back in at some point so we'll keep the old code around for now.
EL 8.0 had a dnf that was not compatible with this script (output changed
causing parsing errors). Make sure that e ahve a recent enough dnf for this
script to run properly and recommend updating otherwise.
Additional RHEL fixes:
- Don't remove subscription-manager because baseos is subscription managed.
- Disable any remaining subscription managed repos that are replaced by
RockyLinux repos.
- Hide digest messages from rpm.
Various fixes to allow RHEL conversions to work:
- adding additional commands to bin_check
- Fixed awk command to parse out the gpgkey for a repo.
- provides_pkg() which returns a package name for a given provides.
- allow additional packages to be removed without replacing them with rocky
equivalents.
- Don't bother checkign the exit status of dnf shell, it doesn't return a valid
fail status anyways.
- Instead check to make sure that the appropriate packages have been removed and
installed. If not attempt to fix with rpm.
There is no need to actually execute curl in order to check that it exists on
the system, the type builtin can tell us without having to fork the command.
We currently require both wget and curl when curl is sufficient to do all of our
downloads. curl is also required by rpm which is part of a minimal or core
install, so it should already be on every system that will run this script.
Avoid forking a subshell by using exec to redirect output to log file.
Additional logging improvements are: Set filename at the top of script once
instead of hard-coding it throughout the script. Log both stdout and stderr.
* Attempt to consolidate URL's
* Attempt to find correct release versions for consistency to minor
release that is supported - This also allows to remove minor version
and just use major version.
* Pull RPM's instead of trying to install directly from the URL
