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fromzy

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Registered: 2024-07-21

Posts: 2  

[SOLVED] Migrate from Debian Bookworm to Daedalus : os-release not updated

Hi all,

From a fresh Debian install, I just tried to follow manual installation from the Migrate from Debian Bookworm to Daedalus page.
Everything is fine.
EXCEPT : If I do a lsb_release -a or a cat /etc/os-release, it shows me I'm still on Debian12

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Release:        12
Codename:       bookworm

$ cat /etc/os-release 
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="12"
VERSION="12 (bookworm)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"
$

And I indeed updated the system with the correct package repo:

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# Update to Devuan
# From https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation/install-guides/daedalus/bookworm-to-daedalus
# 2024-07-21
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-updates main
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security main
#deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-backports main
$

How to solve this please ?
Thanks in advance

fromzy

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Registered: 2024-07-21

Posts: 2  

Re: [SOLVED] Migrate from Debian Bookworm to Daedalus : os-release not updated

So to solve this issue, you have to look at Devuan Package Information to see that base-files for release daedalus is : 12.4devuan3
And so forcing base-files to be installed with this version will solve the issue :

# apt install base-files=12.4devuan3

Thanks to @CueXXIII for his help on IRC #devuan.