rock64 with community debian - daily updates require reboots

[jata]

Hello all,

 

I had diet-pi on my rock64 for the last few years but recently decided to install armbian debian community maintained firmware.

 

Everything is working fine but I seem to get a new core fw on an almost daily basis (armbian-bsp-cli-rock64-current) and the board needs to be rebooted each time.

 

An I using the wrong repo or is this normal?

 

Should i consider running stock debian instead of armbian?

[SteeMan]

By default the community builds point to the 'beta' channel, otherwise known as 'nightly' or rolling releases, which have updates constantly.  If you want something more stable, use armbian-config to switch to the stable channel, and then you should only get updates quarterly.

[jata]

Thanks you for this info. I had a feeling this was the case.

 

I didn't have armbian-config installed and it installs a load of packages but went ahead anyway. 

 

Switched to stable channel so thanks again.

[Igor]

1 hour ago, jata said:

and it installs a load of packages but went ahead anyway. 

We are aware of that and we are working on a new armbian-config, but we are low on human capacity and it goes painfully slow.

https://github.com/armbian/configng

 

1 hour ago, jata said:

Switched to stable channel so thanks again.

The only change is here, apt -> beta, beta -> apt:
 

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list 
deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/armbian.gpg] http://apt.armbian.com jammy main jammy-utils jammy-desktop

 

But you need to reinstall related armbian packages. Armbian-config does that for you ...