Bug 1561768

Proposing as a Final blocker, as firmware-addon-dell is on the Server DVD, and thus this violates the Final criterion:

"There must be no errors in any package on the release-blocking images which cause the package to fail to install."

Note we waived a very similar issue for F27 which was discovered late: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1522905

but I've remembered to report this one early enough that we should probably fix it properly this time.

Discussed during the 2018-04-02 blocker review meeting: [1]

The decision to classify this bug as an AcceptedBlocker was made as it violates the following blocker criteria:

"There must be no errors in any package on the release-blocking images which cause the package to fail to install."

We note that removing the package from the DVD would be a sufficient fix.

[1] https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-blocker-review/2018-04-02/f28-blocker-review.2018-04-02-16.00.txt

https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/pull-request/254 should render this non-blocking, if merged.

That's merged, so I'm gonna drop blocker status for this now.

Any news on this?

Duplicate of 1555752 ?

No, it's not a duplicate, though they're somewhat related.

Anyway, I think it will not be solved:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/firmware-addon-dell/c/23f8bab6e1a3dc30b6a49ed46e6b2b8c430ea4c0?branch=master


"The recommendation from Dell is to drop it. Other distros have dropped it too" -- Charles Rose, Dell


Somebody told me to use fwupd, instead...

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