Bullseye: Automatic upgrade when unstable becomes stable?

[h4rp00n33r]

Hey folks,

I want to set up my banana pi completely new with the Debian Bullseye image on armbian.com. But right now the image is marked as "unstable". Do I have to do the whole setup again when it is marked as "stable" in the near future or does it upgrade automatically (via apt-get)?

Thanks for your support. 

[Werner]

Bullseye has been declared as supported a few days ago but the website has not been adjusted accordingly  yet I think.

For the moment there are only CLI images available though. Desktops need more work to be done.

[Igor]

31 minutes ago, h4rp00n33r said:

or does it upgrade automatically (via apt-get)?

yes.

[h4rp00n33r]

Perfect, thanks for your feedback. So I can tell my wife I have to set up our Banana Pi right now and the lawn has to be cut by someone else... 

[Pedro Lamas]

On 9/3/2021 at 11:14 AM, Igor said:

yes.

 

I assume this involves updating the `/etc/apt/sources.list` file first and then using `apt-get` commands to do the upgrade, but are we ok in doing this or is it recommended that we start freah with a new install?

 

Also, will that also work for users (like me) that are running the OS from an external SSD storage instead of the SD card?

 

Thank you!

[Werner]

3 hours ago, Pedro Lamas said:

I assume this involves updating the `/etc/apt/sources.list` file first and then using `apt-get` commands to do the upgrade

No. If you run bullseye simply wait until rootfs updates support status to supported. Things are prepared already: https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/f61f560510b8a4ba012209f27c0b3e44909232ef

[Pedro Lamas]

Thanks @Werner but in my case I'm still on Buster, so my question was more on upgrading from Buster to Bullseye!

[Werner]

8 hours ago, Pedro Lamas said:

Thanks @Werner but in my case I'm still on Buster, so my question was more on upgrading from Buster to Bullseye!

Unfortunately userspace upgrades like Bionic to Focal or Stretch to Buster have never been officially supported by Armbian due to lack of resources for proper testing. It probably works if you freeze your firmware packages and follow official Ubuntu/Debian guide how to upgrade but if something goes wrong you won't receive help from Armbian.