How to update Qubes Whonix from source?

[Patrick]

@grimelog

Qubes still shows them as having updates, though. Do I need to do more to clear those?

Qubes-Whonix doesn’t have any source code interacting with that mechanism. Needs to be reported on Qubes issues. As per What to post in this Qubes-Whonix forum and what not..

@grimelog

The documentation does not list a Qubes compile target. Do I just want to compile for qcow2?

I am not sure what you want to do, but try doing this for Debian templates first.

@grimelog

How should I approach keeping my compile environment secure?

This is sufficient:

Operating System Software and Updates

What Qubes dom0 is saying in the graphical user interface (GUI) could be a bug. Often you can trust the command line interface (CLI) tool output more. GUI is mostly just showing what it can gather from CLI. Hence more vulnerable to such kind of bugs.

@grimelog

Download source code to a Qube, and then copy it over to the Whonix compile environment, which does not have networking?

After I finish compilation I just overwrite the Whonix Qubes VMs?

Nowhere that complicated.