Graphical update of Fedora 21 template reports no updates available

[marmarek]

Update of Fedora 21 template started from Qubes Manager reports no updates available, while at the same time yum update properly download and install updates.

[marmarek]

Graphical update uses PackageKit, which loads default (for given distribution) backend. In case of Fedora 21 it is hawkey, dnf - new libraries, forked from yum. Apparently when called from PackageKit, it doesn't load global settings - especially proxy (checking via strace it doesn't load any configuration other than /etc/yum.repos.d).
Until this will be fixed upstream, GUI updates will not work.

BTW dnf uses its own configuration file /etc/dnf/dnf.conf and ignores /etc/yum.conf. Also it doesn't support including other config files. So proxy needs to be set directly in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf. In case of Qubes it should be done by /usr/lib/qubes/init/misc-post.sh in addition to /etc/yum.conf.d/qubes-proxy.conf.

[marmarek]

Graphical update uses PackageKit, which loads default (for given distribution) backend. In case of Fedora 21 it is hawkey, dnf - new libraries, forked from yum. Apparently when called from PackageKit, it doesn't load global settings - especially proxy (checking via strace it doesn't load any configuration other than /etc/yum.repos.d).
Until this will be fixed upstream, GUI updates will not work.

BTW dnf uses its own configuration file /etc/dnf/dnf.conf and ignores /etc/yum.conf. Also it doesn't support including other config files. So proxy needs to be set directly in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf. In case of Qubes it should be done by /usr/lib/qubes/init/misc-post.sh in addition to /etc/yum.conf.d/qubes-proxy.conf.

[marmarek]

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-January/205966.html

[marmarek]

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-January/205966.html

[marmarek]

Proposed workaround:

I chose to change qubes-manager to call "gnome-terminal -e 'yum
distro-sync'" instead of gpk-update-viewer as a short-term fix, since I'm
currently using another tool that only works with yum and I know there are
more changes to package management in Fedora 22. If this is indeed a
problem that will affect everyone upgrading from Fedora 20, please consider
fixing it somehow so that they don't all waste time on the same
troubleshooting. (I haven't checked if there's a fix in the official
Fedora 21 template.)

[marmarek]

Proposed workaround:

I chose to change qubes-manager to call "gnome-terminal -e 'yum
distro-sync'" instead of gpk-update-viewer as a short-term fix, since I'm
currently using another tool that only works with yum and I know there are
more changes to package management in Fedora 22. If this is indeed a
problem that will affect everyone upgrading from Fedora 20, please consider
fixing it somehow so that they don't all waste time on the same
troubleshooting. (I haven't checked if there's a fix in the official
Fedora 21 template.)

[mfc]

does the workaround work? if so I would recommend pushing it out for the final Release 3.0 if possible (rather than 3.1), as it would be weird for there to be feature degradation between R2.0 and R3.0.

[mfc]

does the workaround work? if so I would recommend pushing it out for the final Release 3.0 if possible (rather than 3.1), as it would be weird for there to be feature degradation between R2.0 and R3.0.

[marmarek]

PackageKit fix: hughsie/PackageKit@d1a4290

No idea when it will land in Fedora.

[marmarek]

PackageKit fix: hughsie/PackageKit@d1a4290

No idea when it will land in Fedora.

[marmarek]

Fedora 21 is EOL and PackageKit is fixed in Fedora 23 (and probably 22)

[marmarek]

Fedora 21 is EOL and PackageKit is fixed in Fedora 23 (and probably 22)