stroess Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 Hi. Can someone please kindly shed a light on Armbian / Debian / Sunxi release information that is confusing me: I run Armbian Buster on two Cubietruck systems - one was freshly installed, the other upgraded from a previous installation. Both systems were apt-updated/apt-upgraded most recently with identical /etc/apt/sources.list, and subsequently rebooted. Both systems report identical "uname -a" (=Linux ... 5.4.30-sunxi #20.02.9 SMP) and /etc/debian_version (=10.3) information. The /boot folders have identical zImage resp. uInitrd links pointing to identical targets. Still the /etc/armbian-release resp. /etc/armbian-image-release infos differ: VERSION=20.02.1 vs. VERSION=5.90 resp. VERSION=20.02.0-rc0 vs. VERSION=5.75 Are both systems running the same Armbian as indicated by identical "uname -a" and /etc/debian_version, /boot files, and complete apt-get update/apt-get upgrade .... or are they still running somehow differing OSes as indicated by the different /etc/armbian-release files ? In latter case: what needs to be done to get them identical (aside from cloning the OS installation) if apt-get update/upgrade don't fix these assumed differences. Help kindly appreciated - Thx in advance - Regards - Robert (attached a side-by-side comparision of the all version infos) relinfo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tido Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Hi, Just to make sure before trying: -You already read the FAQ on the download page for your device? -You already looked at the Documentation? // sent from mobile phone // Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stroess Posted April 8, 2020 Author Share Posted April 8, 2020 Thx for yr response. Yes, I checked docs and FAQ, and googled - I still do not comprehend why for identical hardware boards the apt-get update/upgrade of an earlier Armbian release for the board leads to a different content of the /etc/armbian-release file, compared to a fresh installation of the Armbian provided for this board (in the above case the 5.90 stamp shown is from 7/2019 according to the Armbian changelog doc, the 20.02.1 from 2/2020). I am aware that an apt-get update/upgrade is a complex operation, but at least in respect to the resulting version identification of Armbian after the update/upgrade it should be unambiguous, compared to a fresh installation of the newest board Armbian image. Also, I do not comprehend why there is a difference between /etc/armbian-release and /etc/armbian-image-release, in the fresh installation case as well as in the update/upgrade case (see previous post). Plz note that both installations are running perfectly, so it is not an urgent problem - just a nagging confusion on my side regarding unique unambiguous version identifications. Regards - Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werner Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Armbian changed his release model and versioning not long ago and I guess what you experience are some side effects while upgrading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tido Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 28 minutes ago, Werner said: his release model and versioning apart from that.. 6 hours ago, stroess said: one was freshly installed, the other upgraded from a previous installation As OP wrote this. To get Armbian more stable it will not update a stable system kernel wise IIRC. However, IIRC within armbian-config you can change this behavior and Igor will correct me if I was wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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