July 2, 20242 yr A few weeks ago I installed the minimal Armbian Bookworm image on a Odroid M1. The installed kernel was 6.6.31 The current minimal version for this board is 24.5.3 with kernel 6.6.36 After running apt update and apt dist-upgrade the kernel updated to version 6.6.32 which was build more then one month ago. I also used armbian-config to update the firmware in hopes that this covers the kernel as well but I am still stuck with the old kernel. What am I doing wrong? And how can I actually update the entire software, including the kernel to the most recent release without manually reinstallig the entire system?
July 3, 20242 yr Sometimes newer kernel packages are not pushed automatically via apt for various reason. This usually isn't an issue. Having .36 instead of .32 most likely does not give you significant advantages. There is however always the option to build a kernel package by yourself and then install via dpkg. https://github.com/armbian/build
July 3, 20242 yr Author Quote Sometimes newer kernel packages are not pushed automatically via apt for various reason Is there a bug tracker for those reasons? I would like to run my devices with up to date patches and not have to manually fix the kernel every other week. It would make more sense to me to help with fixing the issue that prevents the kernel update via apt.
July 3, 20242 yr 1 hour ago, fifinom said: Is there a bug tracker for those reasons? This forum is also bug tracker. Otherwise it eventually reflects here https://www.armbian.com/participate/ and / or here: https://github.com/armbian/build 1 hour ago, fifinom said: It would make more sense to me to help with fixing the issue that prevents the kernel update via apt. Helping on the project is the only way. Telling us what to do is pointless. We are aware of many problems, just capacity to keep things maintained is limited. There are thousands of problems in the code made & maintained by thousands of people. We also make daily repository - beta.armbian.com , which is still tested better then rolling Linux levels. Its usually good, but sometimes things breaks. Repository management is done by those scripts: https://github.com/armbian/os/blob/main/.github/workflows/repository-update.yml https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/main/tools/repository Edit: Stable repo index is updated only manually: https://github.com/armbian/os/actions/runs/9760276553/workflow#L342-L345 Here some better mechanism has to be implemented.
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