Upgrading from older versions: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 01:06, 29 October 2012

Note: You will need to restart any services that have been upgraded to begin using the upgraded versions. If the kernel is upgraded, you will need to reboot to begin using the upgraded version.

Upgrading from 2.1 to Alpine Linux 2.2 and later

Since apk tool has been significantly changed first make sure you have upgraded apk-tools package to latest version available in 2.1 repositories:

apk update --update-cache apk add --upgrade apk-tools

Change repositories:

Contents of /etc/apk/repositories

...
http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v2.2/main
# or any other mirror

Proceed with update and upgrade. The --available switch is used to force all packages to be upgraded, even if they have the same version number, due to changes in uClibc:

apk update --update-cache apk upgrade --available --update-cache

Reboot the system to load new kernel

sync reboot

Upgrading from 2.0 or 1.10.x to Alpine Linux 2.2 and later

Since apk tool has been significantly changed you need to download and install manually the latest version of apk-tools-static package.
And we install busybox-static just in case something goes wrong.

If current version is 1.10.x remove GNU Wget before attempting an upgrade:

apk del wget

Download busybox-static package and install it:

wget http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v2.2/main/x86/busybox-static-1.18.4-r3.apk apk add busybox-static-1.18.4-r3.apk --update-cache

Download apk-tools-static package and install it:

wget http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v2.2/main/x86/apk-tools-static-2.1.0-r1.apk apk add apk-tools-static-2.1.0-r1.apk --update-cache

Change repositories:

Contents of /etc/apk/repositories

...
http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v2.2/main
# or any other mirror

Proceed with update and upgrade. The --available switch is used to force all packages to be upgraded, even if they have the same version number, due to changes in uClibc:

apk.static update --update-cache apk.static upgrade --available --update-cache

Reboot the system to load new kernel

sync reboot

@@ Line 8: / Line 8: @@
 Change repositories:
-{{Cat|/etc/apk/repositories|
+{{Cat|/etc/apk/repositories|...
 http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v2.2/main
 # or any other mirror
 }}
-Proceed with update and upgrade. The --available switch is used to force all packages to be upgraded, even if they have the same version number, due to changes in uClibc:
+Proceed with update and upgrade. The <code>--available</code> switch is used to force all packages to be upgraded, even if they have the same version number, due to changes in uClibc:
 {{Cmd|apk update --update-cache
 apk upgrade --available --update-cache}}
@@ Line 29: / Line 29: @@
 {{Cmd|apk del wget}}
-Download busybox-static package:
-{{Cmd|wget http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v2.2/main/x86/busybox-static-1.18.4-r2.apk
-apk add busybox-static-1.18.4-r2.apk --update-cache}}
-Download latest apk-tools package and install it:
+Download busybox-static package and install it:
+{{Cmd|wget http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v2.2/main/x86/busybox-static-1.18.4-r3.apk
+apk add busybox-static-1.18.4-r3.apk --update-cache}}
+Download apk-tools-static package and install it:
 {{Cmd|wget http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v2.2/main/x86/apk-tools-static-2.1.0-r1.apk
 apk add apk-tools-static-2.1.0-r1.apk --update-cache}}
 Change repositories:
-{{Cat|vi /etc/apk/repositories|
+{{Cat|/etc/apk/repositories|...
 http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v2.2/main
 # or any other mirror
 }}
-Proceed with update and upgrade. The --available switch is used to force all packages to be upgraded, even if they have the same version number, due to changes in uClibc:
+Proceed with update and upgrade. The <code>--available</code> switch is used to force all packages to be upgraded, even if they have the same version number, due to changes in uClibc:
 {{Cmd|apk.static update --update-cache
 apk.static upgrade --available --update-cache}}