Confusion about qubes-dom0-update

[qEawma5f]

Hello I wanted to update my system and here How to update | Qubes OS it was told not to use qubes-dom0-update but here Update troubleshooting | Qubes OS it tells me to use qubes-dom0-update since via the gui tool its stuck for me. I am unsure what to use I wanted to use the salt system but I would like a confirmation thank you.

[apparatus]

Running salt command:

sudo qubesctl --show-output state.sls update.qubes-dom0

Won’t show you any additional output compared to GUI Update tool.
If you want to know what’s going on with update you’ll have to run:

sudo qubes-dom0-update

But chances are there that are a lot of updates and you’re updating over slow network connection (e.g. over Tor) and dom0 update could take a lot of time.
GUI Update tool won’t show you update progress and it’ll only show you log after update is finished.

[adw]

Error on updating multiple templates (Failed to copy Salt configuration)

They’re only a security risk in the sense that if you always use them instead of Salt updates, you might miss out on special security updates that can be delivered only via Salt, which is somewhat rare relative to routine updates. They are not dangerous per se. In other words, on a normal, working system that performs Salt updates regularly, also using the direct update commands does no harm.

[qEawma5f]

Does this mean I can also run dnf update/apt update within a template along with salt updates regularly?

[adw]

Yes, but I’d recommend running the Salt version first.