How are distros meant to actually use this?

[colemickens]

Every last Linux wiki says that "efibootmgr" can "update" or "edit" entries, but I don't see any evidence of that.

• remove and recreating the entry affects bootorder
• there's no way to update an existing entry

So... is every single distro implementing their own logic to persist order, delete, create, restore order or something? Why is this not easier?

[colemickens]

Answer, use efibootmgr+grep with a semi-deterministic label to get the bootnum, if exists, then use --bootnum to modify an entry.