[Bug]: Can't 'apt upgrade' to newer Kernel

[scalpel4k]

What happened?

Hi,

currently it seems impossible to update a running system to newer Kernels. armbian-bsp-* packages are only available on beta.armbian.com and not on apt.armbian.com.

However, the packages on beta.armbian.com have a hard dependency on the base-files package that isn't updated in any of the repos, at least not with a matching version.

Is there a chance to fix that? If I see this correctly it affects all systems and OSes.

thx

How to reproduce?

On a running system try apt upgrade with beta.armbian.com in the sources, this will generate a conflict. Using apt.armbian.com instead will not show any kernel related updates.

Branch

main (main development branch)

On which host OS are you running the build script and observing this problem?

Other

Are you building on Windows WSL2?

• Yes, my Ubuntu/Debian/OtherOS is running on WSL2

Relevant log URL

No response

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

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Jira ticket: AR-2693

[igorpecovnik]

tl;dr; Trixie is not yet part of stable repository, so packages are not generated.

This configuration determines which packages will be build:
https://github.com/armbian/os/blob/main/userpatches/targets-release-standard-support.yaml

Maintaining all this codebase and system for generation represent significant efforts and in past few years I didn't get any notable help here, while I am totally overloaded. To prevent burnout, I limit my focus on stable userspace generation and supported hardware, while everything else is (auto)generated and works "as is". In nightly beta repository Trixie upgrade should work, but beta repository is not 100% stable. Its build from development, where things sometimes breaks. To make this work also in stable, several steps are required:

1. Adding codename (trixie) section to build template https://github.com/armbian/os/blob/main/userpatches/targets-release-standard-support.template#L30-L45
2. Changing variable build image to "no"
3. Regenerating stable artifacts and update repository

Armbian can't hire people to do this instead of me, so its up to you / anyone to do this operation. Once Trixie is declared stable, perhaps not right away, I will run search and replace bookworm with trixie in that template file. Automation will do the rest.