Why such, extremely, SLOW, system updates

[tolga_erok]

can some one tell me how to speed up the system updates as its like 1000000x slower then normal dnf updates on fedora

[mel226]

To be very simply put, dnf downloads packages, rpm-ostree downloads new image versions which makes each update larger in size and takes more time to apply. It’s the nature of Atomic Fedora systems and while I believe there’s upstream plans to improve it, it’s not available yet. Also see:

Layered package, huge update size very often

Updates aren’t very efficient since we’re downloading the custom layer every day. Adding a layered package will add some but our layer is already large. There is inprogress work to use zstd:chunked for better efficiency: No timeline on when we’ll get this for ublue but it’s currently inprogress in upstream Fedora. ujust toggle-updates will let you toggle auto updates on and off if you want a more granular approach to applying updates.

[tolga_erok]

@Layered package

ujust toggle-updates will let you toggle auto updates on and off if you want a more granular approach to applying updates.

so this will what? speed up the granular updates? and how to do granular updates?

sudo time docker pull docker.io/ublue-os/bluefin-dx-nvidia:gts
sudo time docker pull ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin-dx-nvidia:gts

My god its SLOW!!!

[mel226]

toggle-updates stops the daily automatic updates so you can choose to update when you want/need by running rpm-ostree update.

[tolga_erok]

@mel226

rpm-ostree update

ok, so i can just use this to do simple update checks, which seems alot more acceptable in terms of speed

[inffy]

Sure but that won’t update your flatpaks or brews if you have those installed.

Also you can just forget the updates as they are done in the background anyways (every 8 hours or something like that). Then just reboot your machine for like end of the day, or you can check rpm-ostree status if there is a new deployment available

[tolga_erok]

wheres the systemd or conf for this please

i use the following on my fedora kde workstation

alias tolga-update="sudo dnf5 update && sudo dnf update && flatpak update -y && flatpak uninstall --unused && flatpak uninstall --delete-data && [ -f /usr/bin/flatpak ] && flatpak uninstall --unused --delete-data --assumeyes"

[Malix]

Related

Layered package, huge update size very often

Updates aren’t very efficient since we’re downloading the custom layer every day. Adding a layered package will add some but our layer is already large. There is inprogress work to use zstd:chunked for better efficiency: No timeline on when we’ll get this for ublue but it’s currently inprogress in upstream Fedora. ujust toggle-updates will let you toggle auto updates on and off if you want a more granular approach to applying updates.

Reduce Update size

Here’s the overall roadmap: And the issues in particular for downloads: And you’ll see a bunch of interconnected issues there. I’m now publishing bluefin containers with zstd:chunked to help with testing: Package bluefin · GitHub

[j0rge]

You don’t need to do any of this, it’s automated, if you want to kick it off manually ujust update will do all of these.