Ian Goodacre

I read that, and spent a few days reading and experimenting with SysV Init scripts and systemd service files. It was a busy week - all very interesting. The system is nicely settled now. Thanks for the help.

Actually, it is there, just not in the main sources.list - it's in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list, so all is well, except that I don't really know what I'm doing. Thanks for the help and for the great distribution - I'm really liking it, and the NanoPi R1.

Thanks chew, that makes sense, except that it looks like I should have the Armbian repo in my sources.list, but its not there at the moment. Should I add it? I see the code you linked, but I'm not clear when that runs to add the repo. I must admit, I'm being a bit fussy and pedantic - so far, everything has 'just worked' ;-) I have now had a pretty thorough look through the docs and I don't think its there - unless somewhere very obscure. Certainly not in the section on updating.

I am very new to Armbian. I have been running it on a NanoPi R1 for 1 week and all is well, but I am now trying to understand how I will maintain it. I started with the Armbian Buster download, which I wrote to SD card then transferred to emmc. This was easy and completely problem free. I have installed various packages to set up some services and again - all was easy. I am running: BOARD=nanopi-r1 BOARD_NAME="NanoPi R1" BOARDFAMILY=sun8i BUILD_REPOSITORY_URL=https://github.com/armbian/build BUILD_REPOSITORY_COMMIT=76ac54aa VERSION=5.90 LINUXFAMILY=sunxi BRANCH=next ARCH=arm IMAGE_TYPE=stable BOARD_TYPE=conf INITRD_ARCH=arm KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=zImage IMAGE_UUID=f1b5feec-7431-46ef-a39f-2dceeabf23a2 I had a look at /etc/apt/sources.list and was surprised to see only Debian repositories - no Armbian repositories. deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free #deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free #deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free #deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free #deb-src http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free My concern is: how should I maintain the system (install updates) without loosing the Armbian customizations? The main Armbian web page says: Upgrades are done via standard apt-get upgrade method. But if I do this and only have Debian repositories, do I not risk losing the Armbian enhancements? Shouldn't there be some Armbian repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list? I guess that there are some packages (e.g. linux kernel) that I should NOT update from the Debian repositories and that for these, there is some other update process to get updates from Armbian. But it isn't clear to me, what I should do. I know I can build the Armbian system myself (not something I have tried yet), but I don't want a fresh install - I just want to maintain the system I have, for security patches and, occasionally, bug fixes and enhancements. I haven't read all the Armbian documentation yet, so apologies if this is covered and I have missed it. I have seen the "How to Update" section of "Getting Started". If anyone can point me to documentation that addresses my questions, it would be appreciated.