[Bug 1943594] Re: Installing non-free drives fails due to simple-plugins calling `ubuntu-drivers autoinstall ...`

[Brian Murray]

Hello Łukasz, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ubiquity into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/18.04.14.17 in a few
hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been
performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-
bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you,
please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-
failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will
not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic

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Title:
  Installing non-free drives fails due to simple-plugins calling
  `ubuntu-drivers autoinstall ...`

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in ubiquity source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Currently installing bionic 18.04.6 candidate images on a system that
  uses non-free drivers (via ubuntu-drivers) will fail installing those
  additional drivers. The reason for that is that the call to simple-
  plugins fails as it tries to execute `ubuntu-drivers autoinstall (...)
  --package-list (...)`, which is syntax that has been deprecated in the
  current ubuntu-drivers-common package.

  The fix is to use `ubuntu-drivers install ...` as we do for focal+.

  [Test Case]

  Rebuild images with the -proposed ubiquity (or hack it in manually to an iso), perform installation on a system using ubuntu-drivers (for instance, NVidia GPU), check "Install third-party software...", finish installation and check if the installed system has the required drivers installed.
  Additionally a quick browse through the syslog of the ubiquity installation would be a nice double-check.

  [Regression Potential]

  Currently installing ubuntu-drivers via ubiquity does not work at all,
  so the only regression here is that the new argument might be somehow
  incomplete causing not all drivers to be installed.

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