[SRU] Add ability to set BMC boot flag valid bit clearing to chassis bootparm

[Jorge Niedbalski]

[Description]

In versions of ipmitool earlier than 1.8.14, setting the boot device to PXE does not work correctly. (You have to reboot within 60 seconds for it to apply - and that only works for some corner cases.)

With this patch, bootflag options can be set or cleared using:
chassis bootparam set bootflag device options={PEF, timeout, watchdog, reset, power}. Using the prefix of "no-" on any of the options sets it the other way. As part of this change, I also cleaned up the command line parsing and added messages for set bootflag

[Test Cases]

* With this patch bootflag options can be set or cleared by using chassis bootparam set bootflag device options={PEF, timeout, watchdog, reset, power}

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

utopic has the newer version, closing the bug for the current serie

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks Jorge. I've updated your debdiff to wrap the changelog lines to 80 columns and add the bug reference and I'm uploading, it's going to need to be approved by the SRU team next

[Mathew Hodson (mhodson)]

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ipmitool/1.8.13-1ubuntu0.2 is available now in trusty-proposed.

[Mathew Hodson (mhodson)]

ipmitool is available in the trusty-proposed repository and at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ipmitool/1.8.13-1ubuntu0.2 .

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

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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

unsubscribing sponsors, I don't think there is something left to upload there

[Mathew Hodson (mhodson)]

This bug was fixed in the package ipmitool 1.8.13-1ubuntu0.2

ipmitool (1.8.13-1ubuntu0.2) trusty; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/fix-add-options-to-chassis-bootparam-set-bootflag.patch:
    This patch adds the ability to set/clear the BMC boot flag valid options
    to chassis bootparam. (lp : 1393918)
 -- Jorge Niedbalski <email address hidden> Tue, 18 Nov 2014 16:13:07 -0300