Hi, I’m wondering if dnf or rpm-ostree (from what I understand, a dnf wrapper) does handle updating firmware drivers? I’ve uninstalled gnome-software and now I don’t know if I should update firmware with some other command, or does the “rpm-ostree update” command do it?
AFAIK firmware update is handled by fwupd. Not sure if those wrapper included that.
firmware drivers
This sounds like you’re talking about firmware blobs that the kernel drivers load, which are usually in a package called linux-firmware. It should be updated automatically, but I’ll check in the morning with Fedora Silverblue.
Otherwise if you’re talking about device firmware, than that’s all fwupd, rpm-ostree has nothing to do with that.
Its fwupd which does the firmware updates , gnome software access it for updates . The cli version is fwupdmgr.
And your distro may or may not configure it any particular way. OP would need to specify.
rpm-ostree is not really a dnf wrapper. It’s more of a wrapper for ostree with some additional dnf functionality.
Iirc, Bazzite (for example) uses fwupd during their update process after rpm-ostree finishes.
