Automatic Updates

Automatic updates are disabled by default.

To verify this, run the status command.

root@photon-host-def [ ~ ]# rpm-ostree status
State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: disabled
Deployments:
* ostree://photon-1:photon/3.0/x86_64/minimal
                   Version: 3.0_minimal.1 (2019-09-16T09:51:33Z)
                BaseCommit: 28dc49ecb4604c0bc349e4445adc659491a1874c01198e6253a261f4d59708b7
           LayeredPackages: createrepo_c rpm wget

Enable Automatic Updates

  1. Run the following command:
$ systemctl restart rpm-ostreed
  1. To enable automatic background updates, edit the /etc/rpm-ostreed.conf, and include the below lines in the Daemon section:

    [Daemon]
    AutomaticUpdatePolicy=stage
    #IdleExitTimeout=60
    
  2. Run the following commands:

    $ systemctl reload rpm-ostreed
    $ systemctl enable rpm-ostree-automatic.timer --now  
    $ systemctl restart rpm-ostree-automatic
    
  3. Verify that the automatic update feature has been enabled:

    $ rpm-ostree status -v 
          State: idle
    
          AutomaticUpdates: stage; rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer: last run 16min ago
    
  4. On the server machine, perform another commit on the base tree.

Automatic updates are now enabled and will automatically update the host system.



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