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Update handling after rebasing Fedora Silverblue (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] mnmalst 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.conf and reload the systemd service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone just merged some shortcuts to let you turn them on and off easier: https://github.com/ublue-os/config/commit/0823567237f8d83a50a75e9a7cd15c7c9d758d22

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Cool. People are amazing

[–] mnmalst 1 points 1 year ago

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.