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FS#47612 - Live ISO kernel firmware is not kept up to date with the kernel

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Steven Harms (sharms) - Monday, 04 January 2016, 02:18 GMT
Last edited by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Thursday, 07 January 2016, 02:11 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Kernel
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description: The linux-firmware package is behind the kernel package, meaning that wifi users etc will not be able to use their devices with the Live ISO

Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
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Closed by  Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera)
Thursday, 07 January 2016, 02:11 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  ISO snapshot is made with packages available at stable repos at such time.
Comment by Steven Harms (sharms) - Monday, 04 January 2016, 20:26 GMT
  • Field changed: Percent Complete (100% → 0%)
The stated reason for closing is not true. The ISO snapshot uses a linux-firmware package from September, while the current repo packages are from December
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Monday, 04 January 2016, 20:34 GMT
Is true, you can not fetch packages from the future.

At 2016.01.01 ISO, the linux-firmware on repo was 20150904. Now on 2016.01.04 linux-firmware is at 20151207. So for next ISO on 2016.02.01, linux-firmware will be 20151207 or a major version if released (available on [core]) before 2016.02.01.
Comment by Steven Harms (sharms) - Monday, 04 January 2016, 23:34 GMT
I am not sure that is the case -

2015-11-04 upgpkg: linux-firmware 20151104.aa57476-1

The 01.01.16 release should of, at a minimum, contained the November firmware release - 20151104. However I verified it did indeed contain 20150904. Is there any sort of test we can put in place to make sure these files are correctly updated with the kernel?

The impact of users downloading it and not having their wireless work I believe is critical.
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Tuesday, 05 January 2016, 00:14 GMT
> 2015-11-04 upgpkg: linux-firmware 20151104.aa57476-1

20151104 never hits [core] was in [testing] until replaced by 20151207 on 2015-12-10 and moved to [core] on 2016-01-04

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