canonical-livepatch-downloader

The Canonical livepatch downloader tool is a CLI application that provides basic commands to query and download patch files.

Please note that this tool is not a replacement for the Canonical Livepatch client - https://snapcraft.io/canonical-livepatch. Instead it provides some basic patch download and query functionality for scenarios where the Canonical Livepatch client is not supported.

How To Use:

• Enable the tool by running canonical-livepatch-downloader enable <token> with an Ubuntu Pro token obtained from https://ubuntu.com/pro/dashboard, note that the token must be entitled to Livepatch and belong to the stable tier.
• Get the latest patch for your system with canonical-livepatch-downloader get-latest. This command requires some flags, including the architecture and the desired kernel. See the help output for more info.
• Get a list of patches using canonical-livepatch-downloader list, which accepts filtering to your desired kernel/architecture. Use this in conjunction with canonical-livepatch-downloader get-files to download a list of files. Use the -K or --keep-tarball option to also save the downloaded patch tarball.

Patches are downloaded to ~/snap/canonical-livepatch-downloader/common/patches. Patch tarballs are saved to ~/snap/canonical-livepatch-downloader/common/tarballs. Removing the patch downloader will create a snapshot which may be large if you have downloaded several patches. Use sudo snap remove canonical-livepatch-downloader --purge to avoid creating a snapshot.