linux-headers-5.15.0-1027-gke is removed from jammy last night

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 10:20:26AM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:

> On Wed, 10 May 2023 at 09:26, Tai-Lin Chu <tailinchu at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Thanks for your answer.
> > We install specific versions because we try to compile kernel drivers.
> > In 20.04, we saw older kernel versions were kept, but in 22.04
> > (jammy), these older kernel versions could go missing. I wonder what
> > might be a good workaround.

> Removing old ABIs, at this aggressive timelines is a recent change
> done by the Ubuntu Archive team. You can read about it here
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2023-April/042552.html
> and you can respond to that email by subscribing and emailing
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> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-devel-discuss

> Imho, it is a bit aggressive, specifically in the cloud context, where
> images launched by default with potentially slightly out of date
> kernel from a few weeks ago, and it is reasonable to installer headers
> & tools for the currently running ABI of the most currently blessed
> Ubuntu published image, without need to upgrade to latest kernel &
> reboot. But I also don't know how our Public Cloud Team can notify the
> Ubuntu Archive team which kernel ABIs are still "live" and active ones
> in the cloud images in all of the clouds.

When Andy and I looked at this, the analysis had showed that all our images
except for minimal images were being built with linux-$flavor installed,
rather than linux-image-$flavor, so that the headers would already be
present and removal of the old ABIs from the archive would have no impact on
users of these images.

The GKE images are being built on a minimal base, which I did not recall.

It is not otherwise an issue for cloud images per above, with the exception
of the cloud-minimal images.

Since the linux-gke flavor is used only for minimal GKE images, we could
reasonably exclude these from the NBS cleaning going forward.

I've reached out to our Public Cloud team to see what their preference is.

> Separately, whilst this NBS cleanup is in place, you can use the tool
> `pull-lp-debs` from ubuntu-dev-tools which should allow you to
> securely fetch any of the packages you require out of Launchpad
> Librarian archival service. (note that pull-lp-debs is part of
> collection of tools pull-ppa-ddebs pull-ppa-debs pull-ppa-source -
> which are all wrappers around the swiss army knife type of tool
> pull-pkg which can pull anything and everything out of Launchpad,
> PPAs, Debian)


> > Best,
> >
> > On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 12:51 AM Stefan Bader
> > <stefan.bader at canonical.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 09.05.23 22:28, Tai-Lin Chu wrote:
> > > > hi,
> > > > I received alerts about linux-headers-5.15.0-1027-gke being removed last night.
> > > > What might be the reason for that? thanks!
> > > >
> > > > Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/restricted
> > > > amd64 Packages [1077 kB]
> > > > Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease [119 kB]
> > > > Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease [108 kB]
> > > > Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages [1792 kB]
> > > > Get:7 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main amd64
> > > > Packages [585 kB]
> > > > Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/universe amd64
> > > > Packages [898 kB]
> > > > Get:9 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/multiverse
> > > > amd64 Packages [41.2 kB]
> > > > Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages [17.5 MB]
> > > > Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/multiverse amd64 Packages [266 kB]
> > > > Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/restricted amd64 Packages [164 kB]
> > > > Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/multiverse amd64
> > > > Packages [46.6 kB]
> > > > Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64
> > > > Packages [992 kB]
> > > > Get:15 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/restricted amd64
> > > > Packages [1137 kB]
> > > > Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/universe amd64
> > > > Packages [1143 kB]
> > > > Get:17 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports/universe amd64
> > > > Packages [25.6 kB]
> > > > Get:18 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports/main amd64
> > > > Packages [49.4 kB]
> > > > Fetched 26.3 MB in 2s (10.6 MB/s)
> > > > Reading package lists...
> > > > + apt-get install -y linux-headers-5.15.0-1027-gke
> > > > linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-1027-gke
> > > > Reading package lists...
> > > > Building dependency tree...
> > > > Reading state information...
> > > > E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-5.15.0-1027-gke
> > > > E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'linux-headers-5.15.0-1027-gke'
> > > > E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-5.15.0-1027-gke'
> > > >
> > >
> > > That is just the normal way things change with updates. The archive will
> > > not find older version which have been replaced by newer ones. You
> > > should never try to install specific versions for that reason. Try "apt
> > > install linux-headers-gke".
> > > --
> > > - Stefan
> > >
> >
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> okurrr,
> 
> Dimitri
> 

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