Under Global Config > Updates > Checkfor qube updates > Except for…, I have added three qubes.
You would think this should remove them from being listed as needing updates under Qubes OS Update. But they are still listed.
May be the “Additional update check” which is on by default (in Qubes Update → “Cog”).
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They won’t check for new updates but that won’t prevent them to be outdated, see:
qvm-prefs <QUBE_NAME> updateable
Edit: that’s wrong ! See this post: Bug? Exception to global updates not recognized - #11 by parulin
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I’ve encountered the same thing and @parulin’s solution was what worked for me back in the day. This may be worth making an issue on the issue tracker for, as the UX is confusing.
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Or a better documentation? (needs-doc & needs-issue added)
Can you explain this more? You might be right but I don’t understand.
I’m getting True/False answers, but I don’t understand the context in this issue?
Are you saying that taking them out of the update queue doesn’t mean that qubes updater won’t try to update them? If so, that sounds like my exact complaint. Is there some other behavior I should be expecting from that change?
I think I misunderstood.
“Global Config > Updates > Checkfor qube updates > Except for…” is just preventing the qubes with network access from checking if there are available updates and reporting back to dom0.
So if you exclude fedora-43-xfce but not personal, personal will check for updates and tell dom0 about this. If fedora-43-xfce was upgradeable before excluding it from checking for updates, it won’t change. Anyway, Qubes OS Update will attempt to update after X days without checking updates (see the program’s settings).
What are you trying to achieve?
Oh, I guess this is the problemm. It is already known to need an update.
I want to remove certain qubes from the udpate queue so that when I click on the update manager, they are not listed. It is very annoying to have to click, clik, click, and then manually remove certain qubes by checking the dozen or so boxes for qubes that I do not want automatically updated (or which can not be automatically updated). So I want to be able to completelly remove certain qubes from that list/queue.
I think I said something wrong. The updateable property is not what I meant. Check the updates-available feature instead. In your case, you might want to use:
qvm-features <YOUR_QUBE> skip-update 1
https://dev.qubes-os.org/projects/core-admin-client/en/latest/manpages/qvm-features.html