The updater is now telling me that the fedora-41-xfce template is obsolete and needs replacement. How can this be? Is this how its announced now? I see nothing in the News section.
By the gui route, Qubes Updater lists the current fedora-41-xfce template as ‘OBSOLETE’. It allows me to launch Qubes Template Manager, which shows an ‘upgradeable’ Fedora-41-xfce 4.2.0.202501300253 from January 30.
However, selecting the new January template and clicking “apply” doesn’t seem to actually do anything - it seems to immediately report 100% on a progress bar (nothing on this machine can be that quick, trust me…), then “refresh” just shows the same panel of options, with the January template still available for upgrade.
I am very careful with my updates. Why has it taken so long? This update/obsolescence seems a bit of a surprise since I’ve applied many other updates to fedora-41-xfce, but only in May am I getting news of an updated template from January… What’s going on? Has something else failed on my machine?
And if this new process doesn’t work, what should I be doing? The old manual updates described in the docs?
I must have downloaded the wrong template and renamed it as 41 last time I tried to update the templates by the instructions. That sounds like exactly the kind of mistake I would make.
And it explains why its obsolete now.
Would very much like to have the gui replacement work, then.
out of curiosity/stubbornness, I’m trying the gui Template Manager again - it seems to be downloading now, fingers crossed.
I don’t understand the names its using, and how it distinguishes between my erroneous 41 (‘40-41’) and the real. See the image below - is the 2024 fedora-41-xfce listed as “installed” actually my ‘erroneous-40-41’, i.e. really fedora-40-xfce, OR a previous version of fedora-41-xfce that is now obsolete? (I note that the version number of fedora-40-xfce is different).
Once it downloads, it will be interesting to see how it installs over something that it shares a name with.
Also, what is “upgradeable”? For example, debian-12-minimal is listed in two separate lines as “Installed” and “Upgradable”, but it doesn’t show that in the Update Manager.
Weirdness: Template Manager has installed a template called fedora-41-xfce with the January serial number, but its now listed as coming from the qubes-templates-itl-testing repository. It didn’t say ‘testing’ before!
However, sudo cat /etc/fedora-release returns 41, so that’s reassuring.
