[Bug 1908050] Re: Support post install enablement of OEM-enabled devices

[Shih-Yuan Lee]

** Description changed:

  [ Description ]
  
  The Ubuntu installer (ubiquity), working together with ubuntu-drivers,
  will install an "OEM metapackage" for the platform being installed, if
  there is one which matches.
  
  This means that if Canonical has performed enablement for a device,
  users will receive the same experience if they purchase hardware with
  Ubuntu preinstalled or if it has another OS and they later install
  Ubuntu.
  
  However, if the hardware was enabled post-release and the user is
  offline when installing Ubuntu, the installer will not know that there
  is any enablement that it should install. Similarly if the enablement
  happens after Ubuntu has been installed. In these cases we need a way
  inside the installed session for the same enablement to be provided.
  
  We're adding the capability for update-manager to install these
  packages. They themselves install a sources.list.d snippet referring to
  an "OEM archive" specific to the device, so update-manager needs to know
  to update (as in `apt update`) and then upgrade (`apt upgrade`) a second
  time after installing oem-foo-meta from the Ubuntu archive.
  
  update-manager will be consuming a file provided by update-notifier to
  know if the device needs an oem metapackage or not.
  
  NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE: The OEM metapackages are LTS only, so the
  intention is that this change is effectively a no-op on hirsute.
  Therefore we are proposing NOT to SRU to groovy, as there is no chance
  of a regression for groovy users.
  
  [ QA ]
  
  = On a certified device =
  
  1. Update the system to the latest without focal-proposed.
  2. Enable focal-proposed, and then only install update-manager/1:20.04.10.2 and update-notifier/3.192.30.4 from focal-proposed.
  3. Reboot the system, login the desktop and wait for a while.
- The notification will pop up and we can see "Improved hardware support" on the certified machines.
+ The notification will pop up and it will show "Improved hardware support" on the certified machines that has the OEM metapackage support.
  
  = On a non certified device =
  
- 1. Make sure that updates are offered whenever they are available.
- 
- 2. Make sure update-manager is launched automatically (by update-
- notifier) as before.
+ 1. Update the system to the latest without focal-proposed.
+ 2. Enable focal-proposed, and then only install update-manager/1:20.04.10.2 and update-notifier/3.192.30.4 from focal-proposed.
+ 3. Reboot the system, login the desktop and wait for a while.
+ The notification will pop up but it won't show "Improved hardware support" on non certified machines.
  
  [ What could go wrong ]
  
  In this update we rework transaction handling. If this is wrong, then
  the progress bar or terminal could stop working.
  
  If there's a bug in the way we install / update / upgrade the OEM
  metapackages then we could break installing any update.
  
  If we accidentally apply this logic to non OEM systems then we could
  break updating for everybody.

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Title:
  Support post install enablement of OEM-enabled devices

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in update-manager source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed
Status in update-notifier source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [ Description ]

  The Ubuntu installer (ubiquity), working together with ubuntu-drivers,
  will install an "OEM metapackage" for the platform being installed, if
  there is one which matches.

  This means that if Canonical has performed enablement for a device,
  users will receive the same experience if they purchase hardware with
  Ubuntu preinstalled or if it has another OS and they later install
  Ubuntu.

  However, if the hardware was enabled post-release and the user is
  offline when installing Ubuntu, the installer will not know that there
  is any enablement that it should install. Similarly if the enablement
  happens after Ubuntu has been installed. In these cases we need a way
  inside the installed session for the same enablement to be provided.

  We're adding the capability for update-manager to install these
  packages. They themselves install a sources.list.d snippet referring
  to an "OEM archive" specific to the device, so update-manager needs to
  know to update (as in `apt update`) and then upgrade (`apt upgrade`) a
  second time after installing oem-foo-meta from the Ubuntu archive.

  update-manager will be consuming a file provided by update-notifier to
  know if the device needs an oem metapackage or not.

  NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE: The OEM metapackages are LTS only, so
  the intention is that this change is effectively a no-op on hirsute.
  Therefore we are proposing NOT to SRU to groovy, as there is no chance
  of a regression for groovy users.

  [ QA ]

  = On a certified device =

  1. Update the system to the latest without focal-proposed.
  2. Enable focal-proposed, and then only install update-manager/1:20.04.10.2 and update-notifier/3.192.30.4 from focal-proposed.
  3. Reboot the system, login the desktop and wait for a while.
  The notification will pop up and it will show "Improved hardware support" on the certified machines that has the OEM metapackage support.

  = On a non certified device =

  1. Update the system to the latest without focal-proposed.
  2. Enable focal-proposed, and then only install update-manager/1:20.04.10.2 and update-notifier/3.192.30.4 from focal-proposed.
  3. Reboot the system, login the desktop and wait for a while.
  The notification will pop up but it won't show "Improved hardware support" on non certified machines.

  [ What could go wrong ]

  In this update we rework transaction handling. If this is wrong, then
  the progress bar or terminal could stop working.

  If there's a bug in the way we install / update / upgrade the OEM
  metapackages then we could break installing any update.

  If we accidentally apply this logic to non OEM systems then we could
  break updating for everybody.

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