Hi,

 

I had set up my orange pi pc a long time ago and kinda forgot about it.

I am looking at upgrading from debian 8 to debian 9 and I am not sure how it works with armbian? Do I just change the sources.list from jessie to stretch? or do I need to do something special?

 

sources.list

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free

# security packages come always from main repository
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free

uname -a

Linux orangepipc 3.4.113-sun8i #18 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jun 15 02:16:06 CEST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux

 

Apologies for asking something quite basic.

It's not a problem of Armbian but kernel used on those board. Debian Stretch will have troubles with it. You need to switch to modern kernel but that one is still labeled as testing and some features are not yet supported. It depends on your use case.  

Took the Orange PI PC out of the drawer and tried the stretch_next_13.14 nightly and I must say: THANK YOU! to Igor and all armbians.

Impressive work.

Will make a symbolic donation (I'm poor) when the wife is not looking.

Cheers.

21 hours ago, Igor said:

It's not a problem of Armbian but kernel used on those board. Debian Stretch will have troubles with it. You need to switch to modern kernel but that one is still labeled as testing and some features are not yet supported. It depends on your use case.  

I see. Well my use case is an irc client, torrent client and a samba - sftp mount - which I am guessing makes it a light use. Would you reckon it would be likely to work with the above? (I will ofc take an image of the sd card incase it doesn't work as expected).

I just want to be ready for when jessie stops getting security patches

15 minutes ago, Loke said:

which I am guessing makes it a light use.

Yes. Than Debian stretch with this NEXT 4.13.y could be a perfect choice. Just beware that kernel might have some troubles and we don't support it since we are moving to 4.14.y which will be first stable build. Good news is that you will be able to update your system in no time to this stable build when available.

When you download this latest nightly build, freeze the kernel updates in armbian-config and update to the stable repository when kernel 4.14. is out.