> All this interest in atomic workstation made me dust off my vm. > > While upgrading it, I ran into a number of questions that I couldn't find > any answers > for. This might be useful information to put on a new atomic workstation > website. Yep. Upgrading from a previous existing install of workstation might be problematic some of the baked in config may have been off. Hopefully people starting from the Fedora 27 ISO will have a smoother experience. > > 1) How do I find out what I'm running ? > > I guess the answer to this is rpm-ostree status, Yep! > but what does it actually tell me ? > > ● atomicws:atomicws/fedora/x86_64/continuous > Version: 26.447 (2018-01-29 04:58:49) > BaseCommit: > ba986d4649f08705185ba1ce7208e72d149b1e35314d112a86348cb1d61f6f52 > LayeredPackages: powerline > > It would be nice to explain this output a bit - I assume the first > 'atomicws' is a repository name, and 'atomicws/fedora/x86_64/continuous' > is > a branch name. Version 26.447 may indicate that I am running some version > of Fedora 26. Correct. `atomicws` is the name of the ostree remote (like a git remote) and the ref (branch) you are following in that remote is `atomicws/fedora/x86_64/continuous`. > > Unfortunately, I haven't really seen the gnome-software support > in action yet, but I hope it shows this information as well. probably not yet :( > > 2) How do I get the latest updates ? > > rpm-ostree upgrade is easy enough (once I've found it). > > 3) How do I upgrade to a newer release ? We'll publish guides on this for example when F28 Atomic Workstation is released, but it would be an `rpm-ostree rebase` command to make your system start following a different ref. > 4) How do I find out what branches are available to rebase to ? ostree refs does work, but mostly as a user we should guide you enough so you don't have to muck around too much with that. > 5) Where is the repo configuration stored ? /etc/ostree/remotes.d/ > > This is where I got stuck - I could not find any answers to these. > Very frustrating, a normal user would have given up here. Yep. A lot of this is related to you being on a pre-27 atomic workstation. And our docs aren't great > > Eventually, Kalev told me to create a file in /etc/ostree/remotes.d/ with > some content, and then I figured out to run > > ostree remote refs fedora > > to see the branches in the repo, and > > rpm-ostree rebase fedora:fedora/27/x86_64/workstation > > to upgrade to one of them. I blindly picked this branch, since > I have no idea what the difference between you chose the right one :) > > fedora/27/x86_64/testing/workstation > fedora/27/x86_64/updates/workstation > fedora/27/x86_64/workstation so the testing branch has content that includes rpms that are in the updates-testing fedora yum repository. The updates branch has content that includes the updates repo. The other branch right now just points to the updates branch. In Fedora Atomic Host we only release every 2 weeks, if we did the same thing for workstation then the `fedora/27/x86_64/workstation` branch would only get updated when we did the release (so not every day). > > might be... > > Also, I had to disable gpg verification, since I didn't know where > to find the key for that repo. This should help you: here is the ostree remote config if you installed from the ISO: ``` [dustymabe@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/ostree/remotes.d/fedora-workstation.conf [remote "fedora-workstation"] url=https://dl.fedoraproject.org/ostree/27/ gpg-verify=true gpgkeypath=/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-27-primary ``` > > We need to make the rpm-ostree plugin support distro-upgrades > inside gnome-software. And also make this information available > in some obvious place. That would be great! _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
