matt407 Posted May 24, 2018 Posted May 24, 2018 Hi, with my Odroid C2 I experience a strange behaviour regarding Armbian Updates. Initially Armbian_5.38_Odroidc2_Debian_jessie_default_3.14.79 was installed, after installation I did an upgrade to Debian Stretch. Meanwhile a new Armbian version v5.44 / v5.45 with a newer Kernel is available for Odroid C2 devices. If I do "apt update" and "apt upgrade", a newer version isn't visible or would be installed? The system is stuck on v5.38 with Kernel 3.14.79: " Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.38 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 3.14.79-odroidc2 Linux lx 3.14.79-odroidc2 #14 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 25 05:46:07 CET 2018 aarch64 System load: 0.39 0.28 0.30 Up time: 1 day Memory usage: 19 % of 1975MB IP: 172.x.x.x CPU temp: 57°C Usage of /: 51% of 7.0G " When I do "dpkg -l | grep armbian", I see the following: " ii armbian-config 5.45 all Armbian configuration utility ii armbian-firmware-full 5.38 all Linux firmware-full ii armbian-tools-stretch 5.44 arm64 Armbian tools, Cubie bt utils ii hostapd 2:2.6-4~armbian5.38+1 arm64 IEEE 802.11 AP and IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticator ii sunxi-tools 1.4.2-2~armbian5.38+1 arm64 tools for working with Allwinner (sunxi) ARM processors " Has anyone an idea, what happens here? Many thanks, Matt
tkaiser Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 12 hours ago, matt407 said: ii armbian-config 5.45 all Armbian configuration utility Your installation is on 5.45 12 hours ago, matt407 said: Has anyone an idea, what happens here? What Armbian displays with Igor's motd stuff is broken. That's all. The motd routine displays a meaningless version number based on one package's version that does not get updated every time Armbian's version number increases. It's only there to confuse people and generate unnecessary support efforts. Don't expect this to be fixed :-) 1
matt407 Posted May 25, 2018 Author Posted May 25, 2018 Hi tkaiser, thank you for your reply. I'm a bit confused because I thought there is an 4.x Kernel currently the mainline kernel and version 4.14 is at test status? When I look at the download page, kernel version 3.14.79 is listed as unsupported? The reason for the version output is file /etc/armbian-release. I don't know if there is an impact on the armbian installation, if I change the version in this file? cat /etc/armbian-release # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BOARD=odroidc2 BOARD_NAME="Odroid C2" BOARDFAMILY=odroidc2 VERSION=5.38 LINUXFAMILY=odroidc2 BRANCH=default ARCH=arm64 IMAGE_TYPE=stable BOARD_TYPE=conf INITRD_ARCH=arm64 KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=Image P.S. No problem, if the "issue" isn't fixed, if I understand the mechanism behind . In my personal opinion, it will not miss a motd like this on armbian - I like it!
tkaiser Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 3 hours ago, matt407 said: No problem, if the "issue" isn't fixed, if I understand the mechanism behind Well, every other week the same question is asked here so the mechanism to display a random version number contained in /etc/armbian-release that is part of one specific package that doesn't get updated each time Armbian version number is increased is obviously misleading. 1
matt407 Posted May 26, 2018 Author Posted May 26, 2018 Hi tkaiser, okay, thank you - I wasn't aware of that. Regards, Matt
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