[Bluefin-dx] Automatic updates, are not handling Flatpakes?

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I was satisfied about the updates being handled automatically.

And today when I run flatpak updgrade there were tons of updates pending…

SO, what’s going on? I had updates pending for 3 weeks, that’s almost same the time when I installed the bluefin (new user). Although, I got system updates even 2 days before(IIRC), and rebooted my system…

Ente Auth, I opened everytime in the previous days, bugged me with notification, update is available. I ignored it thinking their flatapk package is lagging behind, and no flatpak updates available now, if they had, I would have gotten them automatically anyway…(and I was wrong)…

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I always ujust update on Monday, then reboot.
That updates the operating system, flatpaks, distroboxes, etc.
As far as I can tell, the automatic updates are for the operating system only.

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Atleast previously also flat packs were updated two times a day.

Not sure if this has changed but that how it used to be.

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Thanks.
I meant to add a disclaimer that I wasn’t sure.

Distroboxes seem to always update when I ujust update, so I assume they don’t update automatically?

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I have read on old forum posts that flatpaks upgrades are handled non interactively too.

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ujust update uses topgrade on the backend, which takes care of almost all updates (system, distroboxes, firmware, flatpaks etc) when run.

You maybe right about distroboxes too. I use two of these, which were not updated when I manually ran their respective upgrade commands.

It’s maybe the by design now…

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I noticed that flatpaks weren’t updating for me recently on bluefin.

I just figured it’s because I rebased from Silverblue quite awhile ago and something went wrong.

Anyway, I just made my own systemd service and timer to update daily in the background, which I strongly prefer (as opposed to manual updates).

Edit: see the AUR for example service/timers.