From 0adb425499de3d994b0e70d10af0b2328274aaa9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Prokop Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 17:54:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] SW: ship fwupd with fwupd-signed + policykit-1 + udisks2 for firmware updates Inspired by Holger Levsen's http://layer-acht.org/thinking/blog/20230514-fwupd/ (currently unavailable, instead see e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20230601042943/http://layer-acht.org/thinking/blog/20230514-fwupd/), quoting from there: | boot into Grml. | mkdir /efi ; mount /boot/efi to /efi or set OverrideESPMountPoint=/boot/efi/EFI if you mount to the usual path. | apt update ; apt install fwupd fwupd-amd64-signed udisks2 policykit-1 | fwupdmgr get-devices | fwupdmgr refresh | fwupdmgr get-updates | fwupdmgr update Installing fwupd + fwupd-signed adds 19.2 MB of additional disk space on grml64-full. Without policykit-1 a warning messages appears, so provide it as well (adding 161 kB of disk space). Also ship udisks2 (adding 6.512 kB of disk space) for its plugin for fwupd (also see https://bugs.debian.org/970054). But also its `udisksctl info -b /dev/...` as well as `udiskctl power-off -b /dev/sdX` (see https://github.com/grml/grml/issues/198) tend to be useful. --- etc/grml/fai/config/package_config/GRML_FULL | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/grml/fai/config/package_config/GRML_FULL b/etc/grml/fai/config/package_config/GRML_FULL index 78cefca..5af95a8 100644 --- a/etc/grml/fai/config/package_config/GRML_FULL +++ b/etc/grml/fai/config/package_config/GRML_FULL @@ -343,6 +343,12 @@ lshw numactl usbview +# firmware updates +fwupd +fwupd-signed +policykit-1 +udisks2 + # testing bats stress -- 2.1.4