Comment 7 for bug 1571679

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Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote :

Ubiquity doesn't today install both an MBR and UEFI bootloader, so making that work does require extra planning and effort.

The tool, efi and signed-efi are actually all separate packages. fwupdate-signed depends upon fwupdate. fwupd provides the userspace tool.

It's hard to predict what machines will be getting UEFI capsule updates from LVFS and install from ubuntu-drivers because a manufacturer can start using it at any time. That would mean ubuntu-drivers would need to download the metadata daily, compare the ESRT and only install if your machine is applicable. At that point it definitely is easier if the tools are just "there" already.