Some questions about Gentoo templates

fepitre · January 4, 2022, 1:25pm

From private message I’ve received for which it deserves answers for everybody:

How to enable resizing of disk image of template? I have installed gentoo-xfce template in Qubes 4.1, and when upgrading and rebuilding @world disk size was increased up to 90GB. After cleaning all cache etc, used space is only 11 GB, but in Qubes Manager in dom0 disk usage of Gentoo template looks like 90 GB.
Any docs about Qubes-specific features in Gentoo exists?
I am interested how qubes-updates-proxy works, why gentoo-minimal don’t have qubes-updates-proxy.service and how to install it.

My answers:

This is not specific to Gentoo: Resize disk image | Qubes OS.
Not that much Contents/gentoo.md at master · Qubes-Community/Contents · GitHub.
Certainly because I’ve not implemented all the Qubes OS content into the overlay directly: GitHub - fepitre/qubes-gentoo.

Loutchi · January 12, 2022, 9:20pm

Hey there, I don’t know if I’m strupid but, after a fresh and clean install of QubesOS 4.1 rc3, i can’t install the gentoo template with thoses command :
sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-templates-community qubes-template-gentoo
sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-templates-community-testing qubes-template-gentoo
or
sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-template-gentoo
I’ve tried to switch from repo with the command line but also with the GUI on Global Settings
I also have the same issue with the Kali Template …
the output is :

Redirecting to 'qvm-template install --enablerepo=qubes-templates-community qubes-template-gentoo'
usage: qvm-template ..(all the command avalaible)..

qvm-template: error: Template 'gentoo' not found.

Thanks in advance for any help

enmus · January 12, 2022, 10:56pm

What’s the output of

qvm-template --enablerepo qubes-templates-community list

Loutchi · January 12, 2022, 11:31pm

Installed Templates :
Debian 11 @commandline
Fedora 34 @commandline
whonix GW/WS 16 @commandline
Available templates :
all of the minimal, xfce, old (debian 10, fedora 32) templates qubes-templates-itl

enmus · January 12, 2022, 11:42pm

ludovic · January 12, 2022, 11:42pm

Hi @Loutchi

There is some issues with qvm-template, you should wait the dom0 update for qubes-core-admin-client_4.1.20 and python3-qubesadmin-4.1.20 (available in few days), see :

github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues

'qvm-template --repolist' error - no attribute 'repoid'

opened 11:43AM - 17 Dec 21 UTC

closed 04:32AM - 10 Jan 22 UTC

unman

T: bug C: core r4.1-buster-cur-test r4.1-dom0-cur-test P: default r4.1-bullseye-cur-test r4.1-fc32-cur-test diagnosed pr submitted r4.1-fc33-cur-test r4.1-centos-stream8-cur-test r4.1-fc34-cur-test r4.1-fc35-cur-test r4.1-bookworm-cur-test

[How to file a helpful issue](https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/issue-tracking/) ###… Qubes OS release 4.1 updated from testing repositories ### Brief summary As title `qvm-template repolist` fails with error: ``` Namespace object has no attribute 'repoid' ``` ### Steps to reproduce `qvm-template repolist` ### Expected behavior As per man page, show enabled repos. ### Actual behavior Error message. In fact *No* options for repolist work.

github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues

qvm-template: Unable to view templates repositories other than templates-itl in 4.1-rc3

opened 09:17PM - 31 Dec 21 UTC

closed 04:32AM - 10 Jan 22 UTC

drewlander

T: bug C: templates r4.1-buster-cur-test r4.1-dom0-cur-test P: default r4.1-bullseye-cur-test r4.1-fc32-cur-test diagnosed r4.1-fc33-cur-test r4.1-centos-stream8-cur-test r4.1-fc34-cur-test r4.1-fc35-cur-test r4.1-bookworm-cur-test

[How to file a helpful issue](https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/issue-tracking/) #…## Qubes OS release 4.1 (rc3) ### Brief summary I searched the issues and could not find a duplicate of this issue. If I missed it I apologize. This only happened when I did a fresh install of 4.1-r3. This worked just fine in 4.1-r2 I have since done yet another reinstall (After messing with sys-gui-gpu) and I am having the same issue. Whenever I try to list ANY template that is not in the "default" repositories, it does not display them. For example: ``` qvm-template --enablerepo=qubes-templates-itl-testing list ``` I would expect to see qubes-template-fedora35.x under "Available Templates" but none of that is listed there. I would also try ``` qvm-template --enablerepo=qubes-tempaltes-community-testing ``` and it would not return anything in the testing repository either. It would only show what is in the standard repositories. I have even tried manually enabling the repository in qubes-template.repo, running qubes-dom0-update, then qvm-template list and none of the templates in the testing repository would show, only the ones in the templates-itl repository. Nothing from the testing repository would show under "Available templates" I also tried ``` $ sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-templates-community qubes-template-fedora-35 ``` but that redirects to qvm-template install and it returns "fedora-35" not found ### Steps to reproduce * install 4.1r3 Run ``` qvm-template --enablerepo=qubes-templates-community list ``` ### Expected behavior* I would see the templates from the testing repository under "Available Templates" ### Actual behavior I do not see the templates from the testing repository under "Available Templates"

enmus · January 12, 2022, 11:44pm

At the same time, haha. Sorry

enmus · January 13, 2022, 12:15am

@Loutchi If you don’t want to wait, maybe editing maually

/etc/yum.repos.d/qubes-templates.repo

and setring

[qubes-templates-community-testing]
…
enabled = 1

and then running

qvm-template --enablerepo qubes-templates-community-testing install gentoo

would help?

Loutchi · January 13, 2022, 8:37am

oh, ok thanks to both of you !

@Loutchi If you don’t want to wait, maybe editing maually
/etc/yum.repos.d/qubes-templates.repo
and setring
[qubes-templates-community-testing]
…
enabled = 1
and then running
qvm-template --enablerepo qubes-templates-community-testing install gentoo
would help?

Thanks ! I’ve tried but nothing changed, i’ll wait for the update i guess

51lieal · January 13, 2022, 11:50am

I’ve did a reinstall on my old pc somedays ago, what i did is just, change all repo to testing in global settings, qubes-dom0-update, then qvm-template-gui everything is work as expected.

Loutchi · January 13, 2022, 12:01pm

Ok, I’ve just tried that it doesn’t work …
Thanks anyway

51lieal · January 13, 2022, 12:10pm

can you tell me what template inside qvm-template-gui ? if there’s only debian and fedora, i’m sure that you haven’t enabled communtiy template.

Loutchi · January 13, 2022, 12:23pm

Qubes OS official template release : Official template updates (testing)

Community templates : Community template update (testing)

dom0 updates: Testing update EDIT: after changing this option and doing qubes-dom0-update (installing them) it works
Thanks !

enmus · January 13, 2022, 8:31pm

Oh, so you didn’t follow instructions from the first link/topic I posted:

See testing-repositories, you should install the qubes-core-admin-client and python3-qubesadmin packages from the current-testing repository.