[Bug 1571679] Re: fwupdate-signed doesn't get installed on upgrade

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

We have people flipping between uefi <-> legacy boot too. because they
can in firmware =) granted they need to extra steps to get that to work.
I don't think it is heavy-handed, instead it is forward-looking =) and
doing it at package level, catches "apt full-upgrade" installation too -
as a few people don't use release-upgrader.

Another suggestion is to split the tool, efi, signed-efi into separate
pacakges.

Maybe even migrate to ubuntu-drivers infrastructure to pull in fwupdate
on known machines. As far as I understand, my UEFI desktop will never
receive fwupdate based updates, because board manufacturer doesn't
provide things like that.

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Title:
  fwupdate-signed doesn't get installed on upgrade

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  This machine was upgraded from Ubuntu 14.04 installed in UEFI mode.  After upgrading fwupdate gets installed (as it's Recommends for ubuntu-desktop) but fwupdate-signed isn't installed.  The net results is that even though this machine now supports firmware updates (in 16.04), upon upgrading they can't be used when secure boot is turned on.
   
  Ubuntu 16.04 fresh install behavior is to install fwupdate-signed if the machine is running in UEFI mode so that firmware support will work if the machine supports it.

  
  So the update process should query whether installed in UEFI mode and if so also mark fwupdate-signed for installation.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:16.04.11
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-18.34-generic 4.4.6
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-18-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Mon Apr 18 09:18:10 2016
  DistributionChannelDescriptor:
   # This is a distribution channel descriptor
   # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
   canonical-oem-somerville-trusty-amd64-osp1-20150720-0
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-03 (14 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20150720-04:06
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-18 (0 days ago)

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