[Bug 1555904] Re: opal-prd not installed by default on ppc64el systems

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Unable to verify if the issue at hand is fixed or not, however code wise
it does not have options to regress installations. The installation went
fine on systems, that do not expose said diagnostics directory with hw-
detect 1.117ubuntu2.3. Further testing will confirm if this issue is
fixed, and can be closed.

** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-needed-xenial
** Tags added: verification-done verification-done-xenial

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Title:
  opal-prd not installed by default on ppc64el systems

Status in The Ubuntu-power-systems project:
  Fix Released
Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in hw-detect package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in debian-installer source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in hw-detect source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * opal-prd should be installed on OpenPOWER systems

  [Test Case]

   * install power system

   * check that /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/ibm,opal/diagnostics
  exists

   * if above is true, check that opal-prd package is installed

  [Regression Potential]

   * Additional package installation is performed, thus the install
  process may take longer, and additional disk space will be used.
  However the new code path is non-fatal, and all errors are ignored,
  thus all installation should still proceed past this point. For
  systems without relevant diagnostics exposed, this code path is a no-
  op.

  [Other Info]
   
   * Original bug report

  Just tried an install with current 16.04 network media, using standard
  server package selections, and it looks like opal-prd isn't installed
  by default:

   [jk at fstn ~]$ dpkg -l opal-prd
   dpkg-query: no packages found matching opal-prd

  This is required for RAS-type functions on OpenPOWER machines; and has
  a similar role to something like acpid, on x86.

  I'm not sure whether filing this against the skiboot package is best,
  or whether this should be moved to something installer-related. Happy
  to shift if necessary.

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