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Backport firmware updating stack to Jessie



Hi,

 

I’ve been working on the command line stack for UEFI firmware updates in unstable the past few months and it’s now in a good enough state that I would like to backport it to stable for people to use with relevant hardware.

The actual stack that is used for updates is fwupd/fwupdate.

 

Unfortunately because of changes in the code bases for these to fix lots of issues there are a variety of other packages that need to be backported as well.

 

I have all of the backported packages (source and amd64 binaries) available here:

http://people.ubuntu.com/~superm1/fwupd-backport-jessie/

 

Here’s a summary of all the packages backported:

package

Why

appstream-glib

Dependency for fwupd

efibootmgr

Issues found with NVMe disks

efivar

Dependency for fwupdate and efibootmgr

fwupd

Relevant stack

fwupdate

Relevant stack

gcab

Dependency for appstream-glib, also NEW to Jessie

gdk-pixbuf

Dependency for appstream-glib

gnu-efi

Dependency for efivar

json-glib

Dependency for appstream-glib

libgusb2

Dependency for fwupd

libsoup2.4

Dependency for appstream-glib

libusb-1.0

Dependency for fwupd

 

Can I please get a review?

 

Thanks,

 

Mario Limonciello

Dell | CPG Software Engineering

 


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