Silverblue initial forge

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Is there a way I can see the date of the “initial” forge of Silverblue on my system or is each upgrade now considered initial?

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Welcome to Fedora @argentwolf

After a new installation checking ostree admin status reveals what you have as initial. After that it will create new deployments and will remove the older ones, keeping a rollback as long as you not mark/remove anything else. If you use the --help option, it will show you farther commands you can use.

  fedora daa8d7479ca623cada0e536bdb4f599e116a0e669dc6ec26518bc6b4c6394d6e.0 (rollback)
    Version: 41.20250315.0
    Pinned: yes
    origin refspec: fedora:fedora/41/x86_64/silverblue
    GPG: Signature made Fri 14 Mar 2025 10:06:35 PM -03 using RSA key ID D0622462E99D6AD1
    GPG: Good signature from "Fedora <fedora-41-primary@fedoraproject.org>"

When I understand you correctly you would like to see somehow a history from installation to the deployment in use ? Right?

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I installed Silverblue “initially” the first week in March, and have upgraded maybe 20 times since, I was looking for where I might view that “initial” date Silverblue was installed and not the current/upgraded installation(s)…

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It’s not the most reliable method, but you can look at the date stamp of /root/anaconda-ks.cfg or the date stamps on the logs in /var/log/anaconda.

That will give you the date, but if you are looking for the initial version that was installed, you could do a fresh install in a VM and examine the starting point there. The install media is typically only generated once for the GA release of a Fedora major version, so the starting point shouldn’t be different in the VM.

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