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.

  • Antiochus@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    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.conf has 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.

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      1 year ago

      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 -v command?

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        1 year ago

        I guess so. I hit the grub menu when booting and I see the image version changing there as well.

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      1 year ago

      Unfortunate but understandable. uBlue delivers images in a different way as opposed to silverblue. Great project though and one I will recommend to anybody

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    Unfortunately I have no idea why your updates have stopped working.

    As for having to run the upgrade command, have you considered using cronie to 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.

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    I thiink, sudo systemctl enable NAME OF SERVICE

    they 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

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    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.