Re: Boring upgrade report
On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM John Boxall <jboxall47@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2025-07-28 20:59, Anders Andersson wrote:
> > Just upgraded my Raspberry Pi 2 from Bookworm to Trixie. Nothing
> > eventful happened, like every time I've upgraded a Debian machine
> > since basically Debian Sarge...
> >
>
> Anders,
>
> I would very much like to understand your method for upgrading a
> Raspberry Pi. I asked in the RPI support forum and was pointed to a web
> post that explicitly says "upgrading" is not supported. The only method
> to upgrade is to build a new image. I tried a scripted upgrade one time
> and it failed. I'd be happy to take this off list.
I just did what I always do, follow the upgrade instruction
(https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/upgrading.en.html).
The only unusual part for this release was to change source.list to a
new format, which is well documented. Then just apt-update, apt
upgrade --without-new-pkgs, apt full-upgrade.
However, it sounds to me that you're not running Debian, but their own
weird version. That would be the root cause, and I don't know much
about that. Unless you have unusual requirements I would suggest that
you try to install a pure Debian, it works well for me.
// Anders
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