** Also affects: linux-firmware (Ubuntu Mantic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1926608
Title:
upgrading does not defer initramfs updates
Status in linux-firmware package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in linux-firmware source package in Mantic:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Upgrading linux-firmware (1.173.20) on Ubuntu (18.04.5) will cause the
initramfs files to be updated during the "setting up" phase of linux-
firmware's installation. However, if there are other packages that
also require initramfs to be updated, they will be updated again later
during the "processing triggers" phase. The triggers mechanism of
deb-installer is designed to avoid this duplication of effort and
speed up the time taken to complete an upgrade. If there is no
specific reason for linux-firmware to force the initramfs update
during setup, I believe it makes sense to defer that action.
In the excerpt below, udev and linux-firmware are both in the list of
packages to be upgraded. Udev uses the trigger mechanism and linux-
firmware does not.
> # apt dist-upgrade
> ...
> Setting up libglib2.0-data (2.56.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.8) ...
> Setting up udev (237-3ubuntu10.46) ...
> update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
> Setting up libldap-2.4-2:amd64 (2.4.45+dfsg-1ubuntu1.10) ...
> ...
> Setting up python3-ptyprocess (0.5.2-1) ...
> Setting up linux-firmware (1.173.20) ...
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-72-generic
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-65-generic
> Setting up liblwres160:amd64 (1:9.11.3+dfsg-1ubuntu1.15) ...
> ...
> Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1.4) ...
> Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130ubuntu3.11) ...
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-72-generic
> #
Reference: https://wiki.debian.org/DpkgTriggers
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