Latest upgrade compatible with Trixie?

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Does the new upgrade also upgrade RPi to Trixie? Is it compatible with Trixie?

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We were waiting for the Raspberry Pi "Trixie" packages to be available. That only happened a few weeks back. Next up will be to build and test the "arm64" ASL3 packages. This is on our TODO list.

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Thanks. If I do a update/upgrade on my existing Node, will it update to Trixie? I don’t want to ruin an existing installation, though I have a recent clone of it.

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I would say it's probably okay if you want to do an in-place Trixie upgrade and you're reasonably competent in Linux to possibly fix a few things and/or untangle future breakage when we release the Trixie Pi Appliance.

In general, we have supportable packages for most part of "ASL". However the asl3-pi-appliance package is not yet tested/supported for Trixie. In fact, the asl3-pi-appliance package is going to be split into two parts - asl3-appliance (general appliance aspects) and asl3-pi-appliance (RasPI-specific items) as people are asking for a more turnkey solution for VPS. This will happen before an officially-released ASL3 appliance based on Trixie is released.

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Thanks. I think that I’ll wait. I’m not very proficient with Linux, but I’m learning.

Since I have a backup image, I could just do the upgrade and see if anything breaks. I could share the results with you.

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I have tested in a vm, to do the update on the pi would be suicide. You are talking roughly 400 packages to download and update all at once. If you want to stress the SBC is easy enough to do.

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If you have a cheap SD Card on a Pi, yeah, the writes for the update could be a killer. However I've long done in-place upgrades on Pis where I use high-quality SD Cards with few issues. I've mostly switched over to using Pis with USB-attached SSDs which are easily powered with standard Pi4 and Pi5 power supplies and eliminate the SD Card problem entirely. And, also, Pi5s with NVMe drives are even better.

A fresh card is always nice and cuts down on unexpected failures, but it is reasonable with a modern Pi to do the in-place Trixie upgrade.

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