[SRU trusty/linux-lts-utopic trusty/linux-lts-vivid] LP#1405807: use the correct common packages

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Thu May 14 11:29:04 UTC 2015


On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 06:43:22PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> We are meant to share the linux-tools-common and linux-cloud-tools-common
> packages between _all_ kernels on a release.  This is because we can
> have only one of each of these packages installed regardless of the
> combination of native and HWE kernels we are using.  This is because
> the common package provides the version specific binary selectors.
> Currently linux-lts-utopic and linux-lts-vivid are incorrectly
> producing their own common packages which collide with and remove the
> linux*tools-common packages and prevent any cloud daemons from being
> started.  Switch linux-lts-utopic and linux-lts-vivid to depending on
> the common versions and stop producing the empty linux-lts-* versions.
> This brings them into line with linux-lts-trusty in precise.
> 
> Following this email are two patches one for linux-lts-utopic and one
> for linux-lts-vivid.
> 
> Proposing for SRU to trusty.

We need to pair these with a fix to linux in trusty, so please hold them
here until I have that sorted out.

Thanks.

-apw




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