Re: Correct transition path for moving EFI application
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 02:25:10PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote:
>Hi All,
Hey Mario!
>We’re right about to merge something in upstream fwupd that takes all of
>fwupdate and puts it into the fwupd package.
>
>Fwupd will directly manage installation of the EFI application to the ESP
>(including detection of the ESP location at runtime).
>
>In order to accomplish this I think it’s important that fwupdate is
>no longer installed with fwupd. I wanted to ask for some advice
>however on what the proper packaging transition path is.
>
>Currently fwupdate has
>
>/usr/lib/fwupdate/fwupx64.efi
>
>This is installed to the ESP with a postinst script.
>
>Fwupd has:
>
>/usr/lib/fwupd/efi/fwupdx64.efi
>
>This is installed at runtime when a capsule update is installed.
>
>The file on the ESP is compared and if different the one in /usr/lib/fwupd/efi/
>fwupx64.efi will be installed.
>
>So the files don’t strictly conflict, but I think it would be better
>for fwupdate to be removed for transition purpose to avoid confusion
>of which package is installed to the ESP (especially since fwupdate
>is “currently” recommends for fwupd [that will be dropped]).
Yes, fair enough. They don't conflict in terms of direct file paths in
the packages, but they conflict in terms of functionality via the
files in the ESP.
>Reviewing
>https://wiki.debian.org/PackageTransition
>
>It seems that this should be case #11, right?
>Breaks: fwupdate (<< 11)
>Replaces: fwupdate (<< 11)
>Provides: fwupdate
>
>I tried to do this, but I encounter something along the lines of:
>
>dpkg: regarding fwupd*deb containing fwupd:
>fwupd breaks fwupdate (<< 11)
> fwupdate (version 10-3) is present and installed
>
>dpkg: error processing archive fwupd*deb (--install):
> installing fwupd would break fwupdate, and
>deconfiguration is not permitted (--auto-deconfigure might help)
>
>Errors were encountered when processing:
>
>fwupd*.deb
The transition path looks perfectly OK to me, and it's exactly what
I'd have suggested. How are you testing here? Using dpkg directly, or
via apt?
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