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[Bazzite] Important announcement regarding system updates [Action needed] - FYI
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this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2024
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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)
They messed up the signing on the server side.
They are using all non-stable technology. The Github action and cosign may be normal, but Fedora doesnt release their container images (even though they are the ones that uBlue consumes).
The updating mechanism is fine, this is a security measurement. If the signing failed, it shouldnt update as this could mean malware.
To be fair, the blog post details how they plan on avoiding such an issue in the future