[Bug 1787254] Re: Possibly demote fwupdate to universe?

[John Lenton]

I don't know much about this, but I'm asking different people and I'll
answer here as I find out.

We don't have fwupdate in ubuntu core itself:

    $ find EFI -type f
    EFI/boot/grubx64.efi    
    EFI/boot/bootx64.efi
    EFI/ubuntu/grubenv
    EFI/ubuntu/grub.cfg

it is used in some _customer_ images of ubuntu core. I'll be asking
field engineering about whether and why they prefer one over the other
(and whether this decision affects them in any way).

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Title:
  Possibly demote fwupdate to universe?

Status in fwupdate package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in fwupdate-signed package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in snapd package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In cosmic there has been a major transition in the firmware updating
  stack.  fwupdate's library and EFI application were subsumed into
  fwupd 1.1.0+.

  fwupd will manage the installation of the EFI binary now at runtime.
  fwupdate is still around as a reference implementation that doesn't
  use glib or support CAB packaged files.

  As such should fwupdate be dropped down to universe and fwupdate-
  signed be dropped from the archive?

  I'm hesitant to say yes because it's used in system-image seed and
  installed into ubuntu core.  I don't know how this will affect Ubuntu
  core.

  If it is decided to demote to universe and drop the signed package
  then the packaging needs to be configured to strip the generation of
  the EFI signing archive too.

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