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getting back to latest stable after upgrading to edge

Tony Hunter <th1031@gmail.com>
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I've an older laptop that had alpine v3.3 installed and which I tried
to upgrade to latest-stable. This didn't work, giving many
'unsatisfiable contraints' error messages. So then I tried upgrading to
v3.4, then 3.5 and so on until I got to v3.9. That worked fine but on
further attempted upgrades I was back to the 'unsatisfiable contraints'
error messages.

Ultimately searching and finding no resolution to these errors, I
upgraded the system fully to edge. This has worked in the sense of no
more package conflicts. Is there a simple way to get back to latest-
stable? Can I simply edit /etc/apk/repositories changing edge to
latest-stable and eventually I'll find the system at a stable version?
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Hello,

On March 3, 2020 6:41 AM, "Tony Hunter" <th1031@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've an older laptop that had alpine v3.3 installed and which I tried
> to upgrade to latest-stable. This didn't work, giving many
> 'unsatisfiable contraints' error messages. So then I tried upgrading to
> v3.4, then 3.5 and so on until I got to v3.9. That worked fine but on
> further attempted upgrades I was back to the 'unsatisfiable contraints'
> error messages.
> 
> Ultimately searching and finding no resolution to these errors, I
> upgraded the system fully to edge. This has worked in the sense of no
> more package conflicts. Is there a simple way to get back to latest-
> stable? Can I simply edit /etc/apk/repositories changing edge to
> latest-stable and eventually I'll find the system at a stable version?

Yes, that is correct.  You can just edit the repositories file, then do
`apk upgrade --available` and it will force your system's installed
package set to be aligned with what is in the repositories.

Ariadne
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Hello,

On March 3, 2020 6:41 AM, "Tony Hunter" <th1031@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've an older laptop that had alpine v3.3 installed and which I tried
> to upgrade to latest-stable. This didn't work, giving many
> 'unsatisfiable contraints' error messages. So then I tried upgrading to
> v3.4, then 3.5 and so on until I got to v3.9. That worked fine but on
> further attempted upgrades I was back to the 'unsatisfiable contraints'
> error messages.
> 
> Ultimately searching and finding no resolution to these errors, I
> upgraded the system fully to edge. This has worked in the sense of no
> more package conflicts. Is there a simple way to get back to latest-
> stable? Can I simply edit /etc/apk/repositories changing edge to
> latest-stable and eventually I'll find the system at a stable version?

Yes, that is correct.  You can just edit the repositories file, then do
`apk upgrade --available` and it will force your system's installed
package set to be aligned with what is in the repositories.

Ariadne
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