[Bug 1686183] Re: Ship ubuntu-advantage in ubuntu-minimal

[Steve Langasek]

$ ubuntu-advantage 
usage: ubuntu-advantage [enable-esm|disable-esm]

Enable or disable the Ubuntu Extended Security Maintenance archive.

Parameters:
 enable-esm <token>     enable the ESM repository
 disable-esm            disable the ESM repository

the <token> argument must be in the form "user:password"

$ sudo ubuntu-advantage enable-esm <token>
[sudo] password for vorlon: 
Running apt-get update...
W: Failed to fetch https://esm.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-armhf/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
$

Having foreign-arch multiarch enabled on 12.04 is a pretty marginal use
case. ;) Should we care about filtering out unsupported ports
architectures when constructing the sources.list.d file?

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Title:
  Ship ubuntu-advantage in ubuntu-minimal

Status in ubuntu-advantage-tools package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in ubuntu-advantage-tools source package in Precise:
  Fix Committed
Status in ubuntu-meta source package in Precise:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * Allow ubuntu-advantage users to access the extended security
  maintenance script with a simple command line tool.  This script needs
  to hit precise machines and be easy for ubuntu-advantage customers to
  enable, thus basefiles was chosen as a home.

  [Test Case]

   * Run ubuntu-advantage, it should print out help
   * Run sudo ubuntu-advantage enable <token> (without sudo it will warn you), but you need to be an ubuntu-advantage customer to get that token.  In the end, the script simply adds and removes an /etc/apt/sources.list.d entry.
   * you can contact me (dpb at canonical.com) if you would like a token for test purposes.

  [Regression Potential]

   * Low, this is a new script, not included in any automated startup
  paths.

  [Other Info]

   * http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2017/03/ubuntu-1204-esm.html

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