New Raspberry Pi 3A+

[Tim Curtis]

What would the process be to verify that a dist-upgrade of 2018-06-27 Raspbian, the version used in moOde 4.3, produced the equivalent of 2018-11-13 Raspbian?

Does it matter as long as it still works? I'm inclined to believe the Raspberry Pi folks when they tell us that it's equivalent. You could use apt to list installed versions on both installs. I can assure you that Moode 4.3 still works after updating as per my post above.

Phil

I'm glad it has worked in your case :-) but the manual makes no guarantees, and it specifically mentions that dist-upgrade only bumps the packages that are already installed so definitely not = latest release image.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentatio...pdating.md

The other problem with it is that it creates another support vector because its a live upgrade and for sure there will be failures in the field due to repositories being busy, SDCard out of disk space, network interruptions etc.

-Tim

It was only a small update. You can force install new packages if you really need to. An update like this is quite minor, not like going from Wheezy to Stretch, and we have no GUI to worry about.
My day job involves looking after dozens of Linux servers, so I'm used to apt-get dist-upgrade and yum update.

Any problems I've had have usually been resolved in a few minutes.

Funnily enough, I had to deal with a postfix upgrade issue today, where the update reset directory permissions to defaults. Found and fixed it in seconds, and it wouldn't have affected most users. The joys of setting custom permissions for very specialised third-party apps.

In my case, a reinstall involves reenabling cron, installing and configuring podget, configuring two NAS shares, and adding back a few radio stations.

So anything rather than rebuilding, if possible.

Try it and see. I honestly think it won't be that bad.

Today's update was mainly kernel, pi firmware, and bluetooth.

Phil

Hi Phil,

Starting with stock moOde 4.3 running 2018-06-27 Stretch on a Pi-ZeroW with 766MB free disk space the dist-upgrade took about 15 minutes and yielded what appears to be a 2018-11-13 Stretch equivalent. The Debian version number bumped from 9.4 to 9.6 and only a 1% increase in disk space used :-)

I still have to go through and test various components but overall looking very good :-)

EDIT: removed log because for some reason it will not fit into a code box :-0