downloading and installing updates may result in stray packages installed

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

downloading and installing updates may result in stray packages installed

I am on OEM certified machine with nvidia graphics driver card.

I chose to use nonfree & download/install updates.

in target i ended up with manual linux-modules-nvidia-440-generic-hwe-20.04 package
and automatically installed linux-image-5.4.0-26-generic linux-modules-5.4.0-26-generic linux-modules-nvidia-440-5.4.0-26-generic.

Which is ok, they are extra.

It sounds like we are installing downloaded updates, rather than attempting a new dist-upgrade in target with cached downloads.

[Balint Reczey (rbalint)]

This seems to be a design decision rather than a miss to minimize the upgrades during installation.
We _can_ change that by running an apt dist-upgrade before doing anything else and that would probably also fix LP: #1871268.

[Balint Reczey (rbalint)]

@xnox I've verified the issue on real HW, but not an OEM certified one. You mentioned that both having and nvidia card and being oem certified can be emulated in qemu. Could you please give some pointers about that?
I've found LP: #1882795 which suggests that this testing method is incomplete yet.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

actually i think the issue is deeper; and we _always_ installed two sets of nvidia packages.

I think we have fixed this for the .2 release of focal however.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The Groovy Gorilla has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that release