[PATCH linux-meta-lts-raring SRU] UBUNTU: Provide an EOL upgrade meta package

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Fri May 24 15:47:50 UTC 2013


BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1183850

OEM Pre-installs need a way to automatically upgrade to the final LTS kernel
at end of life.

Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
---
 meta-source/debian/control.d/generic        |   11 +++++++++++
 meta-source/debian/control.d/signed-generic |   11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/meta-source/debian/control.d/generic b/meta-source/debian/control.d/generic
index 5e4fadd..2d05292 100644
--- a/meta-source/debian/control.d/generic
+++ b/meta-source/debian/control.d/generic
@@ -25,3 +25,14 @@ Description: Generic Linux kernel image and headers
  This package will always depend on the latest generic 12.10 kernel image
  and headers packages available.
 
+# Update this meta package to depend on the 14.04 LTS kernel when Raring goes EOL.
+
+Package: linux-generic-lts-raring-eol-upgrade
+Architecture: amd64
+Section: metapackages
+Priority: optional
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, linux-generic-lts-raring
+Description: Complete Generic Linux kernel and headers
+ This package will always depend on the latest 13.04 generic Linux kernel
+ and headers, or 14.04 when 13.04 is end of life.
+
diff --git a/meta-source/debian/control.d/signed-generic b/meta-source/debian/control.d/signed-generic
index 9196e48..f49690a 100644
--- a/meta-source/debian/control.d/signed-generic
+++ b/meta-source/debian/control.d/signed-generic
@@ -16,3 +16,14 @@ Description: Complete Signed Generic Linux kernel and headers
  This package will always depend on the latest complete generic Linux kernel
  and headers.  Signed with the Ubuntu EFI key.
 
+# Update this meta package to depend on the 14.04 signed LTS kernel when Raring goes EOL.
+
+Package: linux-signed-generic-lts-raring-eol-upgrade
+Architecture: amd64
+Section: metapackages
+Priority: optional
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, linux-signed-generic-lts-raring
+Description: Complete Signed Generic Linux kernel and headers
+ This package will always depend on the latest 13.04 generic Linux kernel
+ and headers, or 14.04 when 13.04 is end of life.
+
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