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Re: [SOLVED] Minor issue after upgrading to excalibur

dummy@example.com (the_edge123) — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:55:18 +0000

You must have omitted upgrading for quite a while.

No, I upgrade every day. I was surprised because, last week, I saw all these candidates to upgrade.
I'm not in a hurry. The system works fine. I'll wait for the transition to stable.

Re: [SOLVED] Minor issue after upgrading to excalibur

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 08:11:35 +0000

You must have omitted upgrading for quite a while.

Nevertheless, good luck for a new approach.

Re: [SOLVED] Minor issue after upgrading to excalibur

dummy@example.com (the_edge123) — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 06:18:35 +0000

My bad. I thought I upgraded to Excalibur because almost 300 packages were upgraded in stable.
After checking /var/cache/apt/archives, I can only see deb12 files.
Sorry for the noise.

Re: [SOLVED] Minor issue after upgrading to excalibur

dummy@example.com (RedGreen925) — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:46:03 +0000

Have you digested the OP's = the_edge123 input correctly?

Oh yeah missed the stable part I only seen the code name and was focused on the "upgrading to excalibur" in the title. My point remains correct for any version you are running the base-files package sets the value in the files that tell you what you are running.

Re: [SOLVED] Minor issue after upgrading to excalibur

dummy@example.com (delgado) — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:04:56 +0000

Ups!

I read RedGreen925 post and thought it was an update from the OP.

Sorry for the confusion.

Re: [SOLVED] Minor issue after upgrading to excalibur

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:03:16 +0000

@RedGreen925 and @delgado:

Have you digested the OP's = the_edge123 input correctly?

the_edge123 wrote:

My sources.list refers to stable.
During the last update, the packages were upgraded but
/etc/devuan_version
still contains daedalus.

We are on Devuan here, not on Debian. Daedalus = Stable, Excalibur = Testing!!! I am sorry, you are both on the wrong track.

@Fabien: I am pretty sure you do not have Excalibur on your PC. You are on Daedalus still. The output is correct.

You may check with a

cat /etc/os-release

When you want to upgrade to Excalibur, make sure your Daedalus is up-to-date. Then run

apt install usrmerge

Then change your sources.list to excalibur.

Some reading: https://www.devuan.org/os/releases

Re: [SOLVED] Minor issue after upgrading to excalibur

dummy@example.com (delgado) — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:46:00 +0000

sources file looks good.
((The repos "excalibur-backports", "excalibur-proposed-updates", "excalibur-updates", "excalibur-security" are probably not existing by now, but will when excalibur becomes stable.))

~~Assuming you did:~~

# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade
# apt-get dist-upgrade

~~Is there an error message afterwards?~~

Edit: I got this wrong!
('strike through' does not work on code blocks)

Re: [SOLVED] Minor issue after upgrading to excalibur

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:03:37 +0000

Again: You never have upgraded to Excalibur if your sources.list refers to "stable".

Re: [SOLVED] Minor issue after upgrading to excalibur

dummy@example.com (RedGreen925) — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 10:58:33 +0000

Does it have to be manually updated ?

It is possible you need to change it manually I did nothing and got it correctly done. The base-files package is responsible for that setting.

zeus@lenovo:~/Downloads$ apt policy base-files
base-files:
  Installed: 13.8+deb13u1devuan1
  Candidate: 13.8+deb13u1devuan1
  Version table:
 *** 13.8+deb13u1devuan1 500
        500 http://de.deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-proposed-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     13.8devuan1 500
        500 http://de.deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur/main amd64 Packages

zeus@lenovo:~/Downloads$ apt-file list base-files
base-files: /bin                          
base-files: /etc/debian_version
base-files: /etc/dpkg/origins/debian
base-files: /etc/host.conf
base-files: /etc/issue
base-files: /etc/issue.net
base-files: /etc/os-release
base-files: /etc/update-motd.d/10-uname
snip....

root@lenovo:~# cat /etc/devuan_version
excalibur

root@lenovo:~# cat /etc/debian_version
13.1
root@lenovo:~# cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (excalibur)"
NAME="Devuan GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="6"
VERSION="6 (excalibur)"
VERSION_CODENAME="excalibur"
ID=devuan
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.devuan.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://devuan.org/os/community"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.devuan.org/"

My sources file.

root@lenovo:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan.sources 
# Devuan 6 excalibur
## The new style method of using repositories to install software.
## This /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan.sources is new style and location file
## The /etc/apt/old.style.sources.list contains the same as this.
## https://linuxconfig.org/ubuntus-repository-configuration-ubuntu-sources-have-moved-to-etc-apt-sources-list-d-ubuntu-sources

## Normal excalibur sources
Types: deb
#URIs: http://ca.deb.devuan.org/merged
URIs: http://de.deb.devuan.org/merged
Suites: excalibur excalibur-backports excalibur-proposed-updates  excalibur-updates
Components: main non-free contrib non-free-firmware
Enabled: yes
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-archive-keyring.gpg
Architectures: amd64

## excalibur security sources
Types: deb
#URIs: http://ca.deb.devuan.org/merged
URIs: http://deb.devuan.org/merged
Suites: excalibur-security
Components: main non-free contrib non-free-firmware
Enabled: yes
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-archive-keyring.gpg
Architectures: amd64

Re: [SOLVED] Minor issue after upgrading to excalibur

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 06:25:43 +0000

My sources.list refers to stable.

For Devuan stable still is Daedalus. If you want to upgrade to Excalibur, change your sources.list to excalibur instead of stable.

[SOLVED] Minor issue after upgrading to excalibur

dummy@example.com (the_edge123) — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 06:16:21 +0000

Hello,
My sources.list refers to stable.
During the last update, the packages were upgraded but

/etc/devuan_version

still contains daedalus.
Does it have to be manually updated ?
-
Fabien