From 3d1fa45d6df50a72f6f64f247e6cadeb4a0b3d9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Kempken <881803+skempken@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:16:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix: Install ComfyUI requirements.txt to keep frontend
 updated

The ComfyUI frontend is now distributed as a pip package and needs to be
installed via requirements.txt. Without this, users see warnings like:

  "Installed frontend version 1.34.9 is lower than the recommended version 1.36.13"

This change:
- Installs requirements.txt during first-time setup (after pip upgrade)
- Updates requirements.txt on each container start (quiet mode)

This ensures the frontend and other pip-distributed dependencies stay
current with the ComfyUI version.
---
 start.5090.sh | 8 ++++++++
 start.sh      | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/start.5090.sh b/start.5090.sh
index d4ab31e..fe9ff86 100644
--- a/start.5090.sh
+++ b/start.5090.sh
@@ -185,6 +185,10 @@ if [ ! -d "$COMFYUI_DIR" ] || [ ! -d "$VENV_DIR" ]; then
         python -m ensurepip --upgrade
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
 
+        # Update ComfyUI dependencies (frontend, etc.)
+        echo "Installing ComfyUI requirements..."
+        pip install -r "$COMFYUI_DIR/requirements.txt"
+
         echo "Base packages (torch cu128, numpy, etc.) available from system site-packages"
         echo "Installing custom node dependencies..."
 
@@ -219,6 +223,10 @@ else
     # Just activate the existing venv
     source $VENV_DIR/bin/activate
 
+    # Update ComfyUI dependencies on each start (ensures frontend stays current)
+    echo "Updating ComfyUI dependencies..."
+    pip install -q -r "$COMFYUI_DIR/requirements.txt"
+
     echo "Checking for custom node dependencies..."
 
     # Install dependencies for all custom nodes
diff --git a/start.sh b/start.sh
index 1611463..e960191 100644
--- a/start.sh
+++ b/start.sh
@@ -185,6 +185,10 @@ if [ ! -d "$COMFYUI_DIR" ] || [ ! -d "$VENV_DIR" ]; then
         python -m ensurepip --upgrade
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
 
+        # Update ComfyUI dependencies (frontend, etc.)
+        echo "Installing ComfyUI requirements..."
+        pip install -r "$COMFYUI_DIR/requirements.txt"
+
         echo "Base packages (torch, numpy, etc.) available from system site-packages"
         echo "Installing custom node dependencies..."
 
@@ -219,6 +223,10 @@ else
     # Just activate the existing venv
     source $VENV_DIR/bin/activate
 
+    # Update ComfyUI dependencies on each start (ensures frontend stays current)
+    echo "Updating ComfyUI dependencies..."
+    pip install -q -r "$COMFYUI_DIR/requirements.txt"
+
     echo "Checking for custom node dependencies..."
 
     # Install dependencies for all custom nodes