upgrades: Initial user experience
At the hackathon, I sat next to a beginner user as he set up a VM with the stable virtualbox image. We observed the following:
- apt cache is not updated right away, even when clicking the manual update button. It only updated with the apt daily timer.
- backports is not enabled right away, until the freedombox-setup-repositories timer runs.
Proposals:
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Manual update should allow updating freedombox package (#1638 (closed)). -
Manual update should also update the apt cache. -
When manual update is run, consider performing all of the steps under "Manual Updates from Terminal" on https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/Upgrades to fix common problems. -
APT::Fix-Broken
option may help.
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Enable backports during initial setup. -
Consider running an update during initial setup.
Edited by Sunil Mohan Adapa