Upgrading RetroNAS Linux OS

[sairuk]

I've had a few questions related to older distros recently, our target distro follows raspiOS closely, you can find our information here. I expect we'll see more of this type of question as Debian releases head towards EOL.

While maintaining underlying OS isn't explicitly related to RetroNAS I have in-line upgraded my bullseye (11) RetroNAS to trixie (13) this evening while looking at a solution for retronas/retronas#471 and everything seems to be running OK

I have documented my steps below, there is no guarantee this will work for you and should be considered unofficial and used as a reference only.

The process is Upgrade 11 -> Upgrade 11 to 12 -> Upgrade 12 to 13

You will be using the terminal (ssh or Cockpit), I did this over ssh

• where i mention defaults you will be prompted to keep the local copy of the file that is about to be upgraded, this is generally files we have written something too as part of RetroNAS so you are advised to keep the local file.
• where i mention keep you will be prompted with a tui dialog for options, the matching option is recommended

Upgrade Bullseye (Debian 11)

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get full-upgrade

if backports (Cockpit) were installed you need to remove the sources files first
then run the update/upgrade

$ sudo rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-backports.list

Upgrade Bullseye (Debian 11) to Bookworm (Debian 12)

NOTE: dpkg in Bullseye does not support zstd

$ sudo sed -i 's/bullseye/bookworm/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
$ sudo sed -i 's/bullseye/bookworm/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install zstd
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
restart services without asking
Configuration file '/etc/login.defs'                defaults
$ sudo apt-get full-upgrade
press q to quit the change notes
Configuration file '/etc/default/useradd'           defaults
Configuration file '/etc/nginx/nginx.conf'          defaults
keep local version of smb.conf
Configuration file '/etc/firewalld/firewalld.conf'  defaults
$ sudo reboot
$ sudo apt-get autoremove
$ sudo reboot
$ cat /etc/os-release

NOTE: might get an upack error on /var/cache/apt/archives/dphys-swapfile_20100506-7.1+rpt3_all.deb

Upgrade Bookworm (Debian 12) to Trixie (Debian 13)

$ sudo sed -i 's/bookworm/trixie/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
$ sudo sed -i 's/bookworm/trixie/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
press q to quit the change notes
Configuration file '/etc/firewalld/firewalld.conf'  defaults
$ sudo apt-get full-upgrade
press q to quit the change notes
Configuration file '/etc/login.defs'                defaults
Configuration file '/etc/nginx/nginx.conf'          defaults
Configuration file '/etc/dhcpcd.conf'               defaults
modules.conf.proftpd-new                            keep
nfs-kernel-server.default                           keep
$ sudo reboot

if syncthing was installed previously it will need to be reinstalled to update
the signing keys

$ sudo apt-get autoremove
$ sudo reboot

$ cat /etc/os-release 
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="13"
VERSION="13 (trixie)"
VERSION_CODENAME=trixie
DEBIAN_VERSION_FULL=13.3
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

[s3anami]

Is Trixie fully supported now? See you still have an open trixie support issue

[sairuk]

yes, the hfsutils package being in limbo is the only outstanding issue with trixie i am aware of and the ticket will be kept open for now to acknowledge that. I thought i'd locked this topic so it could be kept as a reference for upgrading. all g tho.