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Bug#1055987: ITP: virt-firmware -- Tools for manipulating edk2 (ovmf/qemu-efi) firmware images

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On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 08:58:23PM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 05:54:23 -0700 dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>
> wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> > 
> > * Package name    : virt-firmware
> >   Version         : 23.10
> >   Upstream Contact: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
> > * URL             : https://gitlab.com/kraxel/virt-firmware
> > * License         : GPL-2+
> >   Programming Lang: Python
> >   Description     : Tools for manipulating edk2 (ovmf/qemu-efi)
> firmware images
> > 
> > This is a collection of tools for edk2 firmware images. They support
> > decoding and printing the content of firmware volumes. Variable
> stores
> > (e.g. OVMF_VARS.fd) can be modified, for example to enroll secure
> boot
> > certificates. Tools included:
> > 
> >  virt-fw-dump - Decodes and prints the content of firmware volumes.
> > 
> >  virt-fw-vars - Print and edit variable store volumes. Currently
> focused on
> >                 enrolling certificates and enabling secure boot.
> > 
> >  virt-fw-sigdb - Print and edit EFI signature database files.
> > 
> >  host-efi-vars - Read efi variables from linux efivarfs and
> decode/print them.
> > 
> >  kernel-bootcfg - Manage efi boot configuration for UKIs (unified
> kernel
> >                   images) when using direct boot (without boot loader
> like
> >                 grub or systemd-boot).
> > 
> >  pe-dumpinfo - Information dump for pe (the format used by EFI)
> binaries.
> > 
> >  pe-listsigs - List signatures and certificate chain for pe binaries.
> Can also
> >                extract certificates & signatures.
> > 
> > 
> > My immediate motivation for packaging this is that, as the maintainer
> of
> > the edk2 package, I need to remove some deprecated image types -
> specifically
> > the OVMF 2M images. These utilities can help users migrate their VMs
> to
> > supported types by dumping/loading the variable stores.
> > 
> > In the future, I expect edk2 packaging to evolve into using these
> tools
> > to modify images out-of-band, instead of launching QEMU instances to
> > modify them in-band as part of the build.
> > 
> 
> Hello Dann,
> 
> I find myself in need of this package for some CI usage as well, are
> you planning to work on this soon? Do you need any help?

Hi Luca,

Apologies for the delayed response. I believe I have completed the
packaging and am prepared to upload:

  https://salsa.debian.org/dannf/virt-firmware

Feel free to review and let me know if you have any feedback.

  -dann

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Bug#1055987: ITP: virt-firmware -- Tools for manipulating edk2 (ovmf/qemu-efi) firmware images dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org> - 2023-11-15 14:00 +0100
  Bug#1055987: ITP: virt-firmware -- Tools for manipulating edk2 (ovmf/qemu-efi) firmware images Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2023-12-07 22:10 +0100
    Bug#1055987: ITP: virt-firmware -- Tools for manipulating edk2 (ovmf/qemu-efi) firmware images dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org> - 2023-12-17 17:50 +0100
      Bug#1055987: ITP: virt-firmware -- Tools for manipulating edk2 (ovmf/qemu-efi) firmware images Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2023-12-17 20:00 +0100
        Bug#1055987: ITP: virt-firmware -- Tools for manipulating edk2 (ovmf/qemu-efi) firmware images dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org> - 2023-12-17 21:00 +0100

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