otter2
October 26, 2025, 1:11pm
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Yeah, there are cli tools and salt for that: How to update — Qubes OS Documentation
Although I find flags of qubes-vm-update very confusing (and kind of wrong), specifically the behavior of --force-update and --force-upgrade: Updater doesn't update
Still, this UX decision is concerning. If user wants to “update all targeted VMs even if no updates are available”, it means user expects there to be an update, even if the system isn’t aware of it, therefore it must refresh package information to be useful.
Also I believe that this program is missing an important functionality: force update, force package information refresh, but don’t ignore errors.
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