odoll Posted February 13, 2019 Share 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guidol Posted February 13, 2019 Share 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted February 13, 2019 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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