Re: [atomic-devel] atomic install/run cockpit does not work on atomic-ws

[Micah Abbott <miabbott redhat com>]

On 03/29/2018 12:34 PM, Muayyad AlSadi wrote:
>  > rpm-ostree upgrade --check
>
> it gives me,
>
> mporting metadata [=============] 100%
> **
> ERROR:src/app/rpmostree-dbus-helpers.c:1362:rpmostree_print_cached_update: 
> assertion failed: (g_variant_dict_lookup (&dict, "ref-has-new-commit", 
> "b", &is_new_checksum))
> Aborted (core dumped)

This looks like:

https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree/issues/1267

You can work around it like so:

"In the meantime, you can work around this by setting 
AutomaticUpdatePolicy in /etc/rpm-ostreed.conf to check (see 
rpm-ostreed.conf(5)). If you don't have the timer running, no checks 
will actually be performed in the background."


> while "rpm-ostree upgrade" works fine, but I guess it's too much ~200MB, 
> we are supposed to get deltas aren't we?

We have deltas for Fedora Atomic Host, but not for Atomic Workstation.


> 466 metadata, 663 content objects fetched; 191,364 KiB transferred in 
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> Checking out tree e703ce3... done
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> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 3:59 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com 
> <mailto:mclasen redhat com>> wrote:
>
>
>         what is the command line that check for updates without applying
>         the update? and list pending updates?
>         is it pull?
>
>
>     rpm-ostree upgrade --check
>
>
>
>         when an update came to atomic ws, it removed those (picture
>         inlined, look at removals: 10 packages)
>
>         is there a way to carry those newly installed packages from the
>         current layer into the updae?
>
>         rpm-ostree has all needed information to do this.
>
>         it knows they were added in the past
>         it knows they are still missing in the update
>         it knows how to merge (or rebase) them
>
>
>     rpm-ostree upgrade does that - it keeps the exiting layer in place.