Comment 10 for bug 2042717

Hello,

> In the Mantic and Lunar installers with ubuntu-desktop-installer, if there is a newer git version at github, then it asked if the user wanted to update the installer to the newer git... I know in the autoinstall.yaml, usually the refresh is set to default on, with the channel default at stable... Right?

Yes, that would be correct, although we look for the new revision of the installer on the snap store, rather than GitHub.

$ snap info ubuntu-desktop-installer
name: ubuntu-desktop-installer
[...]
channels:
  latest/stable: 0+git.1c719695 2023-10-16 (1269) 137MB classic
  latest/candidate: 0+git.417b2d8a 2023-11-08 (1272) 137MB classic
  latest/beta: ↑
  latest/edge: ↑

The version in the candidate/beta/edge channel (rev 1272) has the fix so a snap refresh using latest/candidate should work. If you would like to experiment, you can try an autoinstall with:

refresh-installer:
  update: yes
  channel: candidate

or you can try stopping the installer, running `snap refresh ubuntu-desktop-installer --channel=latest/candidate` and then starting it again.

However, I don't know what the time-frame looks like for promoting a fixed version to the stable channel (this will be proposed as an update for lunar/mantic installs too so it requires testing). This is more a question for the desktop team.

Olivier