Question about Kinoite updates

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Hello,
I’m back on Kinoite and it was an easy, read everything works, install. Everything works as hoped, including Bluetooth with which I had trouble in the regular KDE version before, see:
Bluetooth is broken on F43-KDE
and also Digikam works now on Kinoite, something I had problems with the last time I used it.

In the KDE-Settings I set the update mechanism to automatically and weekly.
When I look in Discover to see if there are updates I see there are updates waiting. Several of them show the text: Refresh of version ***:

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What does this exactly mean? Is the same version installed again without any changes, or are there changes but the version numbers are still the same, or … ?
Who can explain this to me?
Thanks.

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These are updates to Flatpak apps and addons. Basically, there are changes but the version numbers are still the same.

After doing the upgrade, you could run:

flatpak history --columns=time,change,application,installation,remote,commit | grep -i mesa

(and similarly for the other apps offering a “Refresh”)

You should see that the value in the right-hand column (the commit ID) has changed from update to update, even within the same version number.

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Thank you for the explanation. I will have a look at that when the updates have taken place.

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you can also run

flatpak update

from command line to gain more information about the pending updates.