uefirtvariable test in fwts_test does not support by fwts 0.25.06precise1

[Po-Hsu Lin]

On Precise (3.2.0-56) with fwts 0.25.06precise1
the fwts will complain about no such 'uefirtvariable' test exist

available tests:
ac_adapter acpidump acpiinfo acpitables apicedge
apicinstance aspm battery bios32 bios_info brightness
checksum cmosdump cpufreq crs csm cstates dmar
dmesg_common dmi_decode ebda ebdadump fadt
fan hda_audio hotkey hpet_check klog lid maxfreq
maxreadreq mcfg memmapdump method microcode
mpcheck mpdump msr mtrr nx oops os2gap osilinux
pciirq pnp power_button romdump s3 s3power s4 smbios
syntaxcheck uefidump version virt wakealarm wmi

[Daniel Manrique (roadmr)]

Hi Po-Hsu,

Checkbox requires FWTS 13.09 or higher. Suitable versions of fwts are available in the dev ppa:

https://launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev/+archive/ppa

Could you tell me which version of checkbox you had installed on this system? I'm wondering why it didn't install a newer version of fwts.

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

Hello Daniel,

Here it is
ubuntu@201306-13688:~$ dpkg -l | grep checkbox
ii checkbox 0.17+bzr2496+201311090703~ubuntu12.04.1 System testing application
ii checkbox-certification 0.17+bzr631+201311111618~ubuntu12.04.1 Checkbox Certification Tests
ii checkbox-certification-client 0.17+bzr631+201311111618~ubuntu12.04.1 Client Certification
ii checkbox-certification-tools 0.17+bzr631+201311111618~ubuntu12.04.1 Checkbox Certification Tools
ii checkbox-qt 0.17+bzr2496+201311090703~ubuntu12.04.1 QT4 interface for checkbox
ii python3-checkbox 0.17+bzr2496+201311090703~ubuntu12.04.1 CheckBox python3 library

ubuntu@201306-13688:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/checkbox-dev-ppa-precise.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/checkbox-dev/ppa/ubuntu precise main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/checkbox-dev/ppa/ubuntu precise main

[Daniel Manrique (roadmr)]

OK, now I know what's happening. Checkbox only *suggests* the needed fwts version:

Package: checkbox
Suggests: bonnie++,
          fwts (>=13.09.00-0ubuntu1),

suggests are not automatically installed, instead, the one responsible for installing fwts is checkbox-certification, which has this:

Package: checkbox-certification
Recommends: bonnie++, bootchart, ethtool, fwts, git-core ...

notice it's not requiring the specific version we actually need.

Work to do: update checkbox-certification's debian/control file to require fwts >=13.09 as checkbox specifies.