Important announcement regarding system updates [Action needed]
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If you use Bazzite, Bluefin, Aurora, or any other Universal Blue image (including our toolboxes) then you need to follow the instructions in this announcement in order to ensure that your device is getting updates. We were rotating our cosign keypairs this morning, which is the method that we use to sign our images. During this process I made a critical error which has resulted in forcing you to take manual steps to migrate to our newly signed images. All existing Universal Blue images BEFOR...

Creating importer: Failed to invoke skopeo proxy method OpenImage: remote error: cryptographic signature verification failed: invalid signature when validating ASN.1 encoded signature ___

I was banging my head against my keyboard for an hour thinking that I broke my system until I saw this.

  • @Sina@beehaw.org
    12•9 months ago

    I don’t blame the guy for being human and it’s free software etc, but this is reality bad optics for immutable distros. If my nephew and grandma are going to need manual interventions like this one, then might as well use a less restrictive system. The promise of seamless and easy updates are the main draw for me.

    It would be much appreciated if UniBlue made the update process more robust and more resistant to such mistakes.

    (also curl piped into sudo bash is way more common than it should be)

  • @Jayb151@lemmy.world
    5•9 months ago

    I installed Bazzite on a Dell latitude just to check it out… The son of a bitch booted once, let me install updates then never booted again.

  • @marlowe221@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6•9 months ago

    Bluefin-DX is great! I’m still figuring out how everything works - there are a lot of tools included that are new to me, despite being a cloud-oriented developer.

    It’s a very different way to use Linux, from how the OS is constructed, to the container-first nature of the default applications and intended workflow. But I’m really enjoying learning how to use it.

    • @cflewis@programming.dev
      1•9 months ago

      Once I got the hang of connecting Distrobox containers to VS Code, I was really very pleased by the whole setup.

      I also thought it pretty incredible that running “ujust update” actually went into my Debian container for Haskell development and it ran “apt update” for me. I couldn’t believe it the first time.

    • @j0rge@lemmy.ml
      2•9 months ago

      there are a lot of tools included that are new to me, despite being a cloud-oriented developer.

      Interesting! What tools do you commonly use?

      • @marlowe221@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•9 months ago

        At work, we’re a Windows shop. So mostly Docker (desktop) via WSL2. But it depends on the project. Sometimes it’s just NodeJS in Windows itself!

        At home, mostly tools like nvm and Python venvs to handle multiple projects with potentially overlapping/problematic dependencies that I want to isolate from the base system.

        Either way, initial testing happens locally with Docker compose, sometimes minikube depending on the project.

        With Bluefin-DX it’s a lot of the same concepts but the included tools get you there a different, and honestly easier and more convenient way. But I have learn how to use those tools!