odoll Posted February 13, 2019 Posted February 13, 2019 Hello, I own boards of two different manufactures, namely a Cubietruck and an Espressobin. Before a recent Kernel update these days I was still greeted with the following messages: Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.73 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.19.17-sunxi Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.73 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.19.18-mvebu64 But even after the update - IMO apt-get was telling we're going from 5.73 to 5.75 versions of the files the version number in the greeting is still 5.73 Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.73 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.19.20-sunxi Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.73 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.19.20-mvebu64 I know that this might be a more cosmetic issue/question, but what criteria(s) drive(s) the version numbering?
guidol Posted February 13, 2019 Posted February 13, 2019 22 minutes ago, odoll said: I know that this might be a more cosmetic issue/question, but what criteria(s) drive(s) the version numbering? As I have seen (after compiling with the armbian-build-system and installing .debs like kernel-image, dtb, u-boot and headers) the version seems for armbian only to change in the welcome-message if there is a new root-deb-package like (on my Neo2) linux-stretch-root-dev-nanopineo2 5.73 arm64 Armbian tweaks for stretch on nanopineo2 (dev branch) So check for a root package with dpkg -l|grep root A long time ago @Igor did wrote, that not every time the kernel-number changes also the armbian-version does change. I also dont know, why thos root-package is created in /build/output/debs/stretch while the other ones are only in /build/output/debs/ When will the root-package created?
Igor Posted February 13, 2019 Posted February 13, 2019 20 minutes ago, guidol said: When will the root-package created? Happens mainly at major release cycles. If there is a bugfix kernel updated, only kernel gets updated ... For the future: each package will have its own version and will be updated only if needed. Armbian versioning hasn't been determined but it has been well discussed here https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/1129
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