[Bug 1874310] Re: downloading and installing updates may result in stray packages installed

[Balint Reczey]

This seems to be a design decision rather than a miss to minimize the upgrades during installation.
We _can_ change that by running an apt dist-upgrade before doing anything else and that would probably also fix LP: #1871268.

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Title:
  downloading and installing updates may result in stray packages
  installed

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in ubiquity source package in Focal:
  Triaged
Status in ubiquity source package in Groovy:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  downloading and installing updates may result in stray packages
  installed

  
  I am on OEM certified machine with nvidia graphics driver card.

  I chose to use nonfree & download/install updates.

  in target i ended up with manual linux-modules-nvidia-440-generic-hwe-20.04 package
  and automatically installed linux-image-5.4.0-26-generic linux-modules-5.4.0-26-generic linux-modules-nvidia-440-5.4.0-26-generic.

  Which is ok, they are extra.

  It sounds like we are installing downloaded updates, rather than
  attempting a new dist-upgrade in target with cached downloads.

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