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Sign upApper warns you haven't updated in months when you have #968
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marmarek
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Apr 25, 2015
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marmarek
May 18, 2015
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PackageKit (used by Apper) checks for network connection before updating a cache, and it there is no network connection (dom0 have never network access) it simply do nothing.
In previous PackageKit version there was an option to disable this check, but it was removed (hughsie/PackageKit@fe1b2d2). Currently the only way I've found to force PackageKit to refresh its cache is to create dummy network interface in dom0...
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PackageKit (used by Apper) checks for network connection before updating a cache, and it there is no network connection (dom0 have never network access) it simply do nothing. |
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adrelanos
Aug 15, 2015
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GUI Upgrading is actually very hard to get right. Security, usability and reasonable bug freeness is difficult to archive in the absence of any mature GUI upgrading tools. We have recently discussed this with respect to Qubes at the Whonix tracker [but the discussion applies to any Linux distribution]. Now it seems stalled. Read more:
https://phabricator.whonix.org/T373
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GUI Upgrading is actually very hard to get right. Security, usability and reasonable bug freeness is difficult to archive in the absence of any mature GUI upgrading tools. We have recently discussed this with respect to Qubes at the Whonix tracker [but the discussion applies to any Linux distribution]. Now it seems stalled. Read more: |
marmarek
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Sep 2, 2015
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Templates can't be updated via GUI Package Updater / Apper #1197
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marmarek
Oct 30, 2015
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As a stopgap, it would make sense to simply start a terminal with qubes-dom0-update instead of Apper.
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(For reference only.)
As a stopgap, it would make sense to simply start a terminal with qubes-dom0-update instead of Apper.
Seems like you created Launch dom0 updates as qubes-dom0-update in terminal emulator (#1378) for it.
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Yes, so moving this one to some later milestone. |
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This was solved as in #1378 |
nvesely commentedApr 25, 2015
I normally use qubes-dom0-update, but sometimes I launch the updaters from Qubes Manager. Apper, for dom0, always warns you haven't updated in a month+ even though you have.