Rolling updates: nearly daily 9 "base" packages

[Domas]

Hello,

 

not sure if this should go under beginners, or this section but trying here.

I have now set my armbian-config to rolling updates so I get the good beta stuff.

 

Situation: I have no hard evidence of how often this actually happens, but it seems that every time i go and do armbian-upgrade, which I have performed yesterday and today, but also few days ago, I get the same 9 updates every time,

 

armbian-bsp-cli-orangepiplus-current armbian-config armbian-firmware-full
  armbian-zsh base-files linux-dtb-current-sunxi
  linux-headers-current-sunxi linux-image-current-sunxi
  linux-u-boot-orangepiplus-current

 

Is this normal with rolling updates? or my apt somehow loses the version information and reinstalls the new packages. Of course it does not happen if I run -upgrade twice.

 

It compiles kernel etc, so a bit lengthy upgrade but no big deal.

 

I am asking this because I was also performing a userspace upgrade unsuccessfully recently (also in same frequency as I do this armbian-upgrade) which fails for some reason. Just trying to find out if this is related.

But this is not a part of this thread.

 

 

[Igor]

3 hours ago, Domas said:

Is this normal with rolling updates?

Yes. Rolling updates gets updates all the time. Here:
https://github.com/armbian/os/actions/workflows/repository-update.yml
you can see when beta repository is updated. If nothing breaks, every day, sometimes more then once per day, when the code changes. We can not distinguish if fixes are for certain board as they (32b Allwinner in this case) share kernel.

tl;dr; There is nothing to worry about. You can also disable https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian-Config/System/#disable-armbian-kernel-upgrades this and only keep upgrading user-space packages or switch to stable repository https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian-Config/System/#switch-system-to-stable-packages-repository Sadly I can't tell you if this will make any change to this particular hardware, but you won't be bothered for upgrade until next point release. We keep those boards on rolling because we have no resources / funding to tag them officially stable.

[Domas]

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Yes. Rolling updates gets updates all the time. Here:
https://github.com/armbian/os/actions/workflows/repository-update.yml
you can see when beta repository is updated. If nothing breaks, every day, sometimes more then once per day, when the code changes. We can not distinguish if fixes are for certain board as they (32b Allwinner in this case) share kernel.

Wow, unbelievable. But happy to see it is so actively maintained.

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tl;dr; There is nothing to worry about. You can also disable https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian-Config/System/#disable-armbian-kernel-upgrades this and only keep upgrading user-space packages or switch to stable repository https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian-Config/System/#switch-system-to-stable-packages-repository Sadly I can't tell you if this will make any change to this particular hardware, but you won't be bothered for upgrade until next point release. We keep those boards on rolling because we have no resources / funding to tag them officially stable.

I don't mind being on beta for time being and I am fine with updating this often. I actually enjoy receiving updates, since I decided to switch to beta and keep the kernel unfrozen.

Worst case scenario - if some beta breaks my back, I will just restore whole SD card to a few month old backup and update to latest stable.

I do not have anything useful on my board that changes over time.

 

Lets consider this topic closed.