I just moved 4 computers to Aurora. I really like the auto-updating stuff, nearly everything works like a charm but I’m still quite new to some concepts, especially Atomic Linux.
Recently I tested the flatpak Darktable with my laptops but the intel-opencl stuff wasn’t recognized, which isn’t a fault of Aurora but Intel and AMD as there are no flatpak-drivers for OpenCL [1].
Since it was recommended, I moved to the Darktable.AppImage. OpenCL still didnt recognize my Intel (integrated) graphics card, clinfo didnt recognize it, as it was using the AMD Libraries. After layering intel-compute-runtime, clinfo discovered everything and I was finally able to use OpenCL with my Intel Graphics Card.
Since layering a package can pause updates[3], how can I check whether I will still autoupdate in the future and which alternatives should be preferred, to make sure I can use Darktable with OpenCL enabled?
The forum recommended an old post, checking the status of ublue-update, which isnt found on my system, rpm-ostree status gives the following output:
We use uupd (and uupd.timer) to handle the background updates.
But there is no “easy way” to see if a layered package breaks the update, of course if it seems you wont see updates every then there propably is something wrong.
EDIT: Currently stable updates are disabled because we have some backend/F43 work that we are still finishing, so the 24th update is currently the newest one, and propably wont be updated before the weekend or next week
For other people looking for an answer on a similar question: Image-Updates are listed at github[1] as releases, so it is possible to check when an update has been released and should be installed automatically.
Hi- I ran Darktable layered for a year, as well as DigiKam. I had auto updates not installing until I removed the Digikam install. With Darktable, I still got auto updates. I’ve recently switched to the AppImage of Darktable, and have dropped digikam for now. I still have several cli programs layered, including gnome-disk-utility gvfs-fuse gvfs-smb intel-opencl. None cause any problems with auto updates.
That said, I don’t have a great experience with OpenCL in DT on my Intel Arc 580. After 1/2 of use or so, the system locks up, and I have to do a hard reset. My CPU is so fast, I can work without OpenCL, so it’s no biggy. I’ll probably switch back to NVIDIA or AMD if the prices of GPU’s ever come down.
So, my aurora-dx just got an update installed which seems like a security update. Can’t find it on github right now, but at least, auto-updates aren’t stopped.
It would be great to have some indicator, so the system can tell, when it won’t update anymore.