So I am trying out fedora silverblue and recently rebased it to uBlue to get access to hardware decoding for non-free codecs and for some QoL improvements. Before rebasing, I used to get both system updates(update to image that silverblue is based on) and flatpak updates through the gui package manager(gnome-software in this case) but since i rebased, i was not getting any notifications for system updates. I ran rpm-ostree upgrade and then it pulled from the manifest and updated the system using the updated image. For some reason gnome-software did not know this new image was available.
My question is does this mean that i will have to run rpm-ostree upgrade to update from now or will gnome-software handle it? I have no problem using the terminal but gnome-software is more convenient and I am lazy.
I think Ublue is only set to automatically check for updates once per day. If there were only a few updates available, it’s possible your system just didn’t check yet that day.
See if your
/etc/rpm-ostreed.confhas automatic updates set to “stage.” I think that should be the default.See update section in this FAQ, which tells you what config disables automatic updates.
It is already set to stage so i am guessing updates should be applied. But is there anyway to check that this actually happens. Or do have have to wait a few days and see that if the base image has changed by using the
rpm-ostree status -vcommand?I guess so. I hit the grub menu when booting and I see the image version changing there as well.
One of the main features of silverblue is auto updates in the background. You don’t need a cronjob or a graphical tool to achieve this, it’s build into the distribution.
Have a look here: https://miabbott.github.io/2018/06/13/rpm-ostree-automatic-updates.html
You just have to change one entry in
/etc/rpm-ostreed.confand reload the systemd service.Does that work even for the OCI images that ublue uses¿? Also can we configure this further. I don’t want to accidentally update my image when on a metered connection.
Someone just merged some shortcuts to let you turn them on and off easier: https://github.com/ublue-os/config/commit/0823567237f8d83a50a75e9a7cd15c7c9d758d22
Cool. People are amazing
I only used ublue images for a little bit but on the one which offered xfce at that time it was available. I think it’s part of the main image design, so I see no reason it not being available. You can easily check tho.
Looks expected:
https://github.com/ublue-os/main/issues/191
Ublue uses OCI images, I don’t think Silverblue does. Last time I used Ublue even rpm-ostree couldn’t do “check” but it looks like upstream has fixed that at least.
Unfortunate but understandable. uBlue delivers images in a different way as opposed to silverblue. Great project though and one I will recommend to anybody
Unfortunately I have no idea why your updates have stopped working.
As for having to run the upgrade command, have you considered using
cronieto run the command on a schedule for you?Here’s a decent guide for it if you wanted to look into it as a bandaid fix.
Thanks I will look into it
More than like likely yes, although you shouldn’t have to and this is not expected behavior. Same thing happened to me with Kinoite. Twice. I still got flatpak upgrades through Discover but no longer system upgrades, or the system upgrades would appear but error out. I just decided to not rebase anymore after the third reinstall and use toolbox for everything that didn’t have a flatpak available.
I thiink,
sudo systemctl enable NAME OF SERVICEthey have an automatic updater service, anyone knos the name?
Edit: other people already mentioned the rpm-ostree native way, which is better.
Btw, do you know how then to disable the update check / module in Discover? I find it weird to have it check always, and also to search for big GUI apps there is kinda not the purpose, although sometimes necessary
