Current (06.02.23) working in-place upgrade to bookworm

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https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/16685

Original poster

cayce pollard

Created at

2023-02-07 00:37:37

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If anyone had been leveraging in-place dist-upgrade/full-upgrade of debian-11-minimal & inadvertently borked their debian-12-minimal aka bookworm templates (like me :roll_eyes:), here's what I find to be "working" (supporting salt/GUI Update) ...

Used to work a treat:

apt update && apt upgrade -y && apt autoremove -y
sed -i 's/bullseye/bookworm/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
sed -i 's/bullseye/bookworm/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qubes-r4.list
apt update && apt upgrade -y && apt full-upgrade -y && apt autoremove -y

Try something like this instead:

echo "LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8" >> /etc/environment
echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen
echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.conf
locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
apt update && apt upgrade -y && apt autoremove -y
sed -i 's/#deb \[arch=amd64\] https:\/\/deb.qubes-os.org\/r4.1\/vm bullseye-testing main/deb \[arch=amd64\] https:\/\/deb.qubes-os.org\/r4.1\/vm bullseye-testing main/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qubes-r4.list
sed -i 's/#deb \[arch=amd64\] https:\/\/deb.qubes-os.org\/r4.1\/vm bullseye-securitytesting main/deb \[arch=amd64\] https:\/\/deb.qubes-os.org\/r4.1\/vm bullseye-securitytesting main/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qubes-r4.list
apt update && apt upgrade -y && apt autoremove -y
sed -i 's/non-free/non-free non-free-firmware/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
sed -i 's/bullseye/bookworm/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
sed -i 's/bullseye/bookworm/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qubes-r4.list
apt update && apt upgrade -y -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef && apt full-upgrade -y && apt autoremove -y

It's not clear to me why the qubes packages from testing haven't been pushed to the main repo which, would allow the old standard in-place upgrade to work.

Hoping 🙏 this helps someone!