Hello Jeremy,
This renaming of the packages is correct. As documented in bug 1764794,
we have switched our packaging to ship a signed linux image (for UEFI
Secure Boot) with the linux-image package, in contrast to having a
linux-image-signed package as before. In order to implement this, we had
to remove all the modules from the linux-image package. These modules
are now shipped by the linux-modules package, and the old linux-image-
extra has been renamed to linux-modules-extra.
In order to avoid issues when manually installing the kernel image and
modules packages, we recommend installing the meta package (e.g. linux-
generic or linux-image-generic) that will install the right version of
the packages.
I will mark this bug report as 'Invalid' given that it's the expected
behavior now. But please feel free to contact us if you have any further
question.
Thank you.
** Changed in: pkg-website
Status: New => Invalid
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Invalid
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Title:
linux-image-extra package accidentally renamed to linux-modules on
Ubuntu 14?
Status in pkg-website:
Invalid
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Hey all!
We're running Ubuntu 14.04. We recently pulled in a new version of the
kernel (looks like 3.13.0-166 was just released to address a security
vulnerability: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3908-1/).
Some of our scripts install the `linux-image-extra-*` package
corresponding to the current kernel version (so in this case,
3.13.0-166-generic). However, it looks like there is no `linux-image-
extra-3.13.0-166-generic` package:
```
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-cache policy linux-image-extra-3.13.0-166
...
Reading package lists... Done
N: Unable to locate package linux-image-extra-3.13.0-166
N: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-image-extra-3.13.0-166'
```
I do still see a version 165 version of this package:
```
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-cache policy linux-image-extra-3.13.0-165
...
Reading package lists... Done
linux-image-extra-3.13.0-165-generic:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 3.13.0-165.215
Version table:
3.13.0-165.215 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64
Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64
Packages
```
What's interesting is that I do now see a `linux-modules-*` for 166,
something that doesn't seem to exist for any old 14.04 kernels:
```
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-cache policy linux-module-3.13.0-166
...
Reading package lists... Done
linux-modules-3.13.0-166-generic:
Installed: 3.13.0-166.216
Candidate: 3.13.0-166.216
Version table:
*** 3.13.0-166.216 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64
Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
linux-modules-3.13.0-166-lowlatency:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 3.13.0-166.216
Version table:
3.13.0-166.216 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64
Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64
Packages
```
If you look at https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=trusty-
updates§ion=all&arch=any&keywords=linux-modules&searchon=names,
you can see that 166 is the *only* kernel version for this package
(except for some -azure stuff that I don't know anything about). This
is a stark contrast to https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite
=trusty-updates§ion=all&arch=any&keywords=linux-image-
extra&searchon=names, where you can see lots of versions of this
package for all kernels up to 165 (but not including 166).
Is it possible that linux-image-extra-* was renamed to linux-modules-*
in later versions of Ubuntu, and the naming got mixed up while
backporting https://usn.ubuntu.com/3908-1/ to Ubuntu 14.04?
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