Bug 1214789

FWIW, there have been a few changes about kernel-firmware package:

- The multibuild target is swapped; the raw all-in-one package is built with "uncompressed" flavor while the compressed split packages are built as the base one

- The kernel-firmware provides kernel-firmware-uncompressed as alias

- kernel-firmware-* subpackages have Conflicts against kernel-firmware-uncompressed;
  it's because they must not coexist, otherwise the kernel may choose the undesired one (basically uncompressed file is chosen at first).

- The installation is done with the upstream script, as it supports the compression support

- The upstream added "RawFile" attribute in WHENCE, and this made some files installed as uncompressed even in compression mode. (e.g. for small files or amd-ucode)

The last change seemed to cause a problem, though.  It made kernel-firmware and kernel-firmware-* packages conflicting with its content (both provides the same files).

As a workaround, Dominique suggested that kernel-firmware should also have Provides of kernel-firmware-*.  Then, if kernel-firmware is used, the dependency for kernel-firmware-* can be solved.  OTOH, kernel-firmware-all is installed, it replaces everything.

After bsc#1218307, the Provides: has been removed, including the one for kernel-firmware-brcm

installation-images now fails to resolve both in 15-SP6 and Factory:


conflict for providers of kernel-firmware-brcm needed by bcm43xx-firmware, (provider kernel-firmware-brcm conflicts with kernel-firmware)



I assume that to avoid catching the same bug again the solution would be to make installation-images depend on kernel-firmware-all instead, right? @Steffen: can this be done for both SP6 and Factory?

Thanks in advance

Yes, it's a better option!

installation-images has historically these (kernel) firmware dependencies:

BuildRequires:  adaptec-firmware
BuildRequires:  bcm43xx-firmware
BuildRequires:  kernel-firmware
BuildRequires:  atmel-firmware
BuildRequires:  ipw-firmware

Can this be reduced to simply kernel-firmware resp. (after the
transition) kernel-firmware-all?

(In reply to Steffen Winterfeldt from comment #6)
> installation-images has historically these (kernel) firmware dependencies:
> 
> BuildRequires:  adaptec-firmware
> BuildRequires:  bcm43xx-firmware
> BuildRequires:  kernel-firmware
> BuildRequires:  atmel-firmware
> BuildRequires:  ipw-firmware
> 
> Can this be reduced to simply kernel-firmware resp. (after the
> transition) kernel-firmware-all?

AFAIK, all those (except for kernel-firmware) seem to be the non-upstreamed stuff, so they are still needed.

If I still have to include bcm43xx-firmware then I don't see how to avoid
the conflict mentioned in comment 4.

If I understood correctly, bcm43xx-firmware explicitly depends on kernel-firmware-brcm (which is in turn pulled in by kernel-firmware-all as well) so the dependency should be satisfied that way by changing kernel-firmware with kernel-firmware-all.

Right.

bcm43xx-firmware explicitly requires kernel-firmware-brcm, as it contains a symlink to the firmware file included in kernel-firmware-brcm.  Hence it'll be broken if kernel-firmware package is used instead.

Ok, I'll move to kernel-firmware-all, then.

For Tumbleweed:

- https://github.com/openSUSE/installation-images/pull/687

Insterestingly, compressed initrd size is down 2.6% - with exactly
the same number of firmware blobs included (1834).

Could you fix for SLE15-SP6 and ALP, too?  They take the same kernel-firmware changes, too.

Yes, I'm working on it.

SLE15-SP6:

https://github.com/openSUSE/installation-images/pull/688

SUSE-RU-2024:2071-1: An update that has six fixes can now be installed.

Category: recommended (moderate)
Bug References: 1213185, 1213606, 1214789, 1218706, 1221603, 1226047
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SUSE-RU-2024:2070-1: An update that has six fixes can now be installed.

Category: recommended (moderate)
Bug References: 1213185, 1213606, 1214789, 1218706, 1221603, 1226047
Maintenance Incident: [SUSE:Maintenance:34214](https://smelt.suse.de/incident/34214/)
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SUSE-RU-2024:2069-1: An update that has six fixes can now be installed.

Category: recommended (moderate)
Bug References: 1213185, 1213606, 1214789, 1218706, 1221603, 1226047
Maintenance Incident: [SUSE:Maintenance:34215](https://smelt.suse.de/incident/34215/)
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