Bug 110968

Summary:	Allow ubuntu users to install on other ubuntu versions
Product:	DRI	Reporter:	Andrew Shark <ashark>
Component:	DRM/AMDgpu-pro	Assignee:	Jeremy Newton <Jeremy.Newton>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	110956, 111268

Description Andrew Shark 2019-06-22 04:50:45 UTC

19.20-812932 release for Ubuntu

In amdgpu-core package there is a preinst script which checks a distribution version. If it is not Ubuntu, it allows installation with warning. But if it detects it is another version of Ubuntu, it declines installation.

Why not just let users to install and just warn them that they are using unsupported version? Anyway, users may modify a package with my script, that I attached to this bug report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110795
 
Also installation denial of this single package causes a big trouble for those who tried to use installer script. You can see in that bug report that another user was in situation with a lot of broken packages. I also was in such situation and did not know how to recover from that state. Later I have prepared a script to remove everything from amdgpu-pro (also attached there).

But really, if you still want to stop ubuntu users, then why do not edit installer, so it goes to install only amdgpu-core first (without its dependencies), and only after that it goes to install all other packages that are returned by build_package_list? Or just make distribution check in installer script rather than in package scriptlet.

Comment 1 Eric Engestrom 2019-06-22 15:54:47 UTC

Ubuntu packaging issue; this needs to be reported to Ubuntu instead.

Comment 2 Eric Engestrom 2019-06-22 17:57:23 UTC

TIL AMD does its support via our bugzilla...

Comment 3 Jeremy Newton 2019-07-29 16:01:55 UTC

This is not a Ubuntu issue, we do this purposely.

Let me discuss internally and I can try to get a better solution.

Comment 4 Jeremy Newton 2019-10-02 17:06:00 UTC

I pushed a fix to move the check to the postinstall script of the pin file, should be easy to comment out installing that package in the script (not really required for install).

I'm not sure when the driver will be updated externally with this fix.

Comment 5 Martin Peres 2019-11-19 08:00:34 UTC

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