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New to armbian How do I know I am on the rolling release


maybl8

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9 hours ago, maybl8 said:

should I just watch that page

 

Rolling releases are at the bottom of download pages - for each device. 

https://www.armbian.com/rpi4b/

But for some reason, we didn't produce rolling images for Rpi. I did move it back on.

https://github.com/armbian/os/commit/6304fa14b309103eab302b1df9b1e6efec36ff1b

But any image you can switch to rolling - at least from kernel perspective:
https://www.armbian.com/newsflash/armbian-leaflet-25/

If you need rolling user-space too, then wait (few hours) for new rolling builds or DIY. Beware that rolling user-space variants contains bleeding edge software, which is not tested well.

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Thaks for this info. 

First try didn't go so well.

Tried the nightly build from the armbian config menu and rebooted .

System froze at the first color screen.

 

Second try was just to upgrade the kernel to 6.7.x.

That didn't work either same result.

 

No problem this should be fun to get working.

Looking forward to learning about rolling.

Thanks

If I can help contribute log files or something. Let me know .

I will read the links on supporting the team.

I would like my Pi400 to be on the latest system.

 

After reading allot on the links you provided.

What is the best advise you would give for me wanting to stay rolling and using a Pi400?

 

 

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7 hours ago, maybl8 said:

What is the best advise you would give for me wanting to stay rolling and using a Pi400?


Use nightly builds. Now they are present. Its 6.6.y kernel. You can try to switch to alternative kernel  (EDGE) via armbian-config -> system -> alternative kernel ... however none of this is tested. "Rolling" means, its just shipped and if you are lucky, it works, you have latest kernel, if not, it breaks and you need to DIY to get it back. This is philosophy behind Arch / Manjaro.

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Hopefully the last question on this .

Is this what I want:

Armbian_24.8.0-trunk.472_Rpi4b_trixie_current_6.6.42_minimal.img.xz

And then it will always be rolling with the nightly builds?

I've used Debian Testing before but the repos always said testing not a specific version like trixie.

Thanks

 

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Trixie is what the next official release will be. So it will stay rolling until it hits a freeze point and shortly after which released.

 

If you really wanna stay rolling; testing, unstable and sid is where you wanna be. But I wouldn't use any for a daily or production unit.

 

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