Accessing pre-release updates on RHEL 7.5

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This is regarding fwupd (LVFS).

In Ubuntu, under "Software & Updates" there is a "Developers Option" and an option to also check "Pre-released updates" .

I would just like to ask if there is an equivalent for Redhat?

FW updates can be seen via Gnome software in Ubuntu (we assume it is because of the "Pre-released updates" option) but in Redhat Software update, it shows system is up-to-date even if it is expected that an FW update should be available via LVFS

Background:
Can update FW to latest when using "fwupdmgr get-updates" command on terminal. The issue is GNOME software update does not update FW to the latest like the way the terminal does

Firmware latest version is 11.8.50.3460
Current version is 11.8.50.3448

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Christian Labisch's picture Guru 9710 points
20 June 2018 8:20 AM

Hi Marc,

GNOME Software is a "nice application", but professional users manage these kind of tasks via command line.
Please note that ubuntu (desktop) is meant to be a (new) user friendly distribution, where RHEL aims more at
businesses and advanced users. I generally recommend to use the terminal for software management tasks. :)

Regards,
Christian

MI Community Member 20 points
20 June 2018 8:36 AM

Hi Christian,

Thank you very much for your reply.

I understand that RHEL is meant for advanced users (as compared to Ubuntu) but does it mean that for fwupd's case , while update via terminal is generally recommended, Users cannot update their FW via LVFS using GNOME? (Ubuntu on other hand can update)

Christian Labisch's picture Guru 9710 points
20 June 2018 8:48 AM

Hi Marc,

Especially in this very case (firmware updates) it is definitely recommended to use the terminal.
By the way, GNOME Software is known to have some issues and it uses PackageKit as back end.
No idea why Canonical (the company that provides ubuntu) implemented a GUI solution here. :)

Regards,
Christian

MI Community Member 20 points
20 June 2018 9:13 AM

Thank you very much for the information.

Christian Labisch's picture Guru 9710 points
20 June 2018 9:21 AM

You're welcome, Marc ! :)

Regards,
Christian

MI Community Member 20 points
20 June 2018 8:26 AM

We are testing fwupd (LVFS) via terminal and via GNOME. If you have any suggestion on how to make LVFS updates available on GNOME, we would appreciate it greatly

thank you

Christian Labisch's picture Guru 9710 points
20 June 2018 8:56 AM

Hi Marc,

What you can do (if you really want to have this), is to place a feature request on https://bugzilla.redhat.com. :)

Regards,
Christian

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