Need Ubuntu to preinstall ppc64-diag and other basic packages

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-- Problem Description --

We need Ubuntu support for pre-install ppc64-diag and other basic packages.
Below packages contains Power platform specific tools which are required by default.. Hence please include these packages in default installation list.

ppc64-diag
powerpc-ibm-utils

We need this for 14.04 and 14.10 tree..

-Vasant

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

powerpc-ibm-utils should be getting installed by default already. I'll double-check that, but I was fairly sure that was the case.

ppc64-diag, however, is definitely not, and we need to look into where and how best to fit that in for systems where it should be installed.

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2014-09-08 22:42 EDT-------
I think ppc64-diag should just be installed everywhere. Any bits that are PowerNV dependent will only run if booted on PowerNV.

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2014-09-17 09:44 EDT-------
Ubuntu,

Any Update ?

-Vasant

[Mauricio Faria de Oliveira (mfo)]

Hi Canonical / Adam,

This is an issue for ppc64el guests too, as it impacts disk hotplug (internal bug reports).

Fortunately, just installing ppc64-diag will bring in other required packages for this functionality (powerpc-ibm-utils and librtas pieces).

> [...] we need to look into where and how best to fit that in for systems where it should be installed.

Any news, or something that we could do?
Is a problem the package being in the 'universe' component (vs. neither 'main' nor 'restricted')?
... or is it more of where to add its install trigger?

Thanks!

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2014-10-13 00:05 EDT-------
*** Bug 117318 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2015-02-02 11:18 EDT-------
Ubuntu,

Any update on this bug?

thanks

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The process for installing packages by default requires the package to go through the Main Inclusion process, which includes a security review. My understanding is that during the MIR review, some issues were identified by our security team in ppc64-diag and its dependencies and that these have been raised with the upstream teams within IBM for resolution.

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2015-03-02 05:11 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #23)
> The process for installing packages by default requires the package to go
> through the Main Inclusion process, which includes a security review. My
> understanding is that during the MIR review, some issues were identified by
> our security team in ppc64-diag and its dependencies and that these have
> been raised with the upstream teams within IBM for resolution.

Thanks for the detailed security review and comments... . We are working on resolving those concerns raised by Seth.. We will roll ot new version with all the fixes soon.

-Vasant

[Breno Leitão (breno-leitao)]

We understand that with the lastest release of the ppc64-diag and its dependency, this inclusion should be good now. Any other objection from Canonical?

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-09-27 10:36 EDT-------
$ apt-cache madison libservicelog libvpd ppc64-diag
libservicelog | 1.1.16-2 | http://fr.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports yakkety/universe Sources
libvpd | 2.2.5-2 | http://fr.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports yakkety/universe Sources
ppc64-diag | 2.7.1-5 | http://fr.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports yakkety/universe ppc64el Packages
ppc64-diag | 2.7.1-5 | http://fr.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports yakkety/universe Sources
ubuntu@vm20:~$ apt-cache madison libservicelog libvpd ppc64-diag lsvpd servicelog
libservicelog | 1.1.16-2 | http://fr.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports yakkety/universe Sources
libvpd | 2.2.5-2 | http://fr.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports yakkety/universe Sources
ppc64-diag | 2.7.1-5 | http://fr.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports yakkety/universe ppc64el Packages
ppc64-diag | 2.7.1-5 | http://fr.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports yakkety/universe Sources
lsvpd | 1.7.7-1 | http://fr.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports yakkety/universe ppc64el Packages
lsvpd | 1.7.7-1 | http://fr.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports yakkety/universe Sources
servicelog | 1.1.14-1 | http://fr.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports yakkety/universe ppc64el Packages
servicelog | 1.1.14-1 | http://fr.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports yakkety/universe Sources

So currently all required release are available on 16.10 - Closing bug