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system-helper: Add appstream-update to privileged group polkit rules#6501

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It appears appstream-update is required to do flatpak update --apstream. I was trying to run this (via arch-update) in a systemd service/timer and after debugging found it was failing due to this action not being allowed.

I think it makes sense to add it.

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bbhtt commented Feb 25, 2026

can you make the commit message something like system-helper: Add appstream-update to privileged group polkit rules and wrap the lines in body to 72?

@valankar valankar changed the title Add appstream-update action to Flatpak rules system-helper: Add appstream-update to privileged group polkit rules Feb 25, 2026
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Updated, not sure if that looks better though.

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bbhtt commented Feb 25, 2026

No, you added a merge commit and introduced unrelated indentation changes.

appstream-update is required to do flatpak update --apstream. When
executed via arch-update inside a systemd service/timer, the update
was failing due to this action not being allowed.
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Sorry do you still need me to do something here? I asked github copilot to address the comments and it seemed to do that merge commit nonsense. Fantastic AI.

I don't really care about this too much as I've worked around it by now. This config is clearly wrong to begin with, and if no one else cares I'm happy to close.

@valankar valankar closed this Mar 3, 2026
@valankar valankar deleted the patch-1 branch March 3, 2026 11:55
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