Automatic Updates

Automatic updates are disabled by default.

To verify this, run the status command.

root@photon-7c2d910d79e9 [ ~ ]# rpm-ostree status 
State: idle
Deployments:
● ostree://photon:photon/4.0/x86_64/minimal
   Version: 4.0_minimal (2021-02-20T07:15:43Z)
Commit: 965c1abeb048e1a8ff77e9cd34ffccc5e3356176cda3332b4ff0e7a6c66b661f

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.