Re: Backport firmware updating stack to Jessie
Hi,
some of the below libraries got a soname bump between jessie and stretch.
I think you should get in touch with the respective maintainers, try to have them
do the backports, and then try to mitigate the remaining packages.
e.g. appstream-glib got a soname bump.
I'm not happy in backporting stuff with a different soname (not even sure if allowed)
cheers,
g.
Il Mercoledì 20 Aprile 2016 23:36, "Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com" <Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com> ha scritto:
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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