SOLVED Unable to update Radarr directly

[dnilgreb]

I did an update of my jails the other day. As a part of that, I ended up creating a brand new jail for Radarr, and pkg installing
radarr 4.2.4.6635_1 by michiel@vanbaak.eu.

Since then, under System / Updates, I have an update available to version 4.3.2.6857, and this message:
Unable to update Radarr directly, use 'pkg upgrade' or create a PR requesting an update of the port.

Does anyone know if it is by design, if it is something in my config thet I could change, or why else this happens?

In Settings / General under Updates, there is no Built in Updat Machanism available, only External and Script.
What can I do to enable built in updates? Or can I?

 

[sretalla]

Since then, under System / Updates, I have an update available to version 4.3.2.6857, and this message:
Unable to update Radarr directly, use 'pkg upgrade' or create a PR requesting an update of the port.

Does anyone know if it is by design, if it is something in my config thet I could change, or why else this happens?

The latest version in pkg/ports right now is:
radarr-4.2.4.6635_1

(https://www.freshports.org/net-p2p/radarr/)

That means that the folks managing that port/pkg haven't yet done the work needed to allow you to pkg upgrade to the version mentioned in the message (I also see the same if that helps you to feel better about it).

When that update arrives, you can go into the jail console and run pkg upgrade

 

[dnilgreb]

Of course, I get that, Once released in pkg, I can upgrade via pkg upgrade. But why do I have to? I am wondering why I can no longer upgrade using the built in update mechanism? Can I do anything to enable that?

 

[sretalla]

OK, so... you're in the same boat as everybody here...

FreeBSD isn't really a (properly) supported platform for the 'arr (Servarr) apps. (note the lack of even a mention of FreeBSD/pkg in this section: https://wiki.servarr.com/radarr/faq#How_do_I_update_Radarr.3F)

Some things can work well when you have a stable base install and all of the updates in a new version are only to the dotNet app.

Assuming your permissions are right (seems they at least were, since you are talking as if updates had worked for you from the GUI in the past), updates can happen as long as they are standard.

It can also be that the authors have closed a door for FreeBSD now that the pkg has been made more official, forcing us to now use the pkg system every time.

You will (together with the rest of us) need to accept that we're "poor cousins" in this scenario.

Maybe it will turn out fine, but we can't do much other than accept how it is if not.

 

[sretalla]

The pkg is now available in the latest branch and the update worked as expected. It seems to have delivered an update to the UI (now supports proper dark mode), so maybe that was a reason for the update to require more than usual...

We'll need to wait for the next update to see if this is a permanent thing or if it goes back to "normal" (updates in the web UI).

 

[mistermanko]

Please do yourself a favor and switch to SCALE when you want timely updates to apps like *arrs or plex, etc.
Sometimes there's only one guy in Nebraska who looks over that one pkgs and decides from time to time to check the changelogs for the source and if he has time to port it to FreeBSD.

 

[sretalla]

It was only a few months back that it was added (in dotnet version) to pkg thanks to TheFrank/ @FrankNAS

I guess the support will be fairly reasonable for a little while at least.

Until the performance tuning is done on SCALE, I'm not going there on my primary NAS, so all my media stuff will continue to live on CORE for a while yet and it doesn't make sense to run the 'arrs on another box across the network if they can be native in a jail.

 

[mistermanko]

Don't get me wrong I love the native-ness to jails. I miss it deeply in SCALE, k3s is horrible for little things like an *arr-app and the current abomination of docker-on-k3s-helmcharts-gated-catalogs is nightmare stuff imho. But the frequent updates and the better feature set that came with SCALE has converted me.

 

[sretalla]

I love the native-ness to jails. I miss it deeply in SCALE

Maybe you can already get some of that back...

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[mistermanko]

oh my oh my. Thanks for that!

 

[dnilgreb]

Thanks @sretalla for clarifying. the pkg upgrade went smoothly, we´ll see what happens with the next update. i set this thread to solved.