Hello!

Is it ok to run alpine on a physical server?
I am talking about upgrades especially - new versions release quite 
frequently (and are supported only within a year), so how alpine handles 
this kind of upgrades? (I mean 3.12 -> 3.13 -> 3.14 -> ....)

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With Best Regards,
Andrey Abramov

Sure,
If you want to upgrade this package and leave all other packages untouched for the most part use your distribution's package update or upgrade command followed by the package name.
You will want to have a backup of the machine before you start so that if things don't go as you plan you can revert.

Tom


-----Original Message-----
From: ~alpine/users <~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org> On Behalf Of Andrey Abramov
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2020 11:31 AM
To: ~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Alpine upgrades on a physical server

Hello!

Is it ok to run alpine on a physical server?
I am talking about upgrades especially - new versions release quite 
frequently (and are supported only within a year), so how alpine handles 
this kind of upgrades? (I mean 3.12 -> 3.13 -> 3.14 -> ....)

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andrey Abramov

On Monday, July 13, 2020 9:31:17 AM MDT Andrey Abramov wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Is it ok to run alpine on a physical server?
> I am talking about upgrades especially - new versions release quite
> frequently (and are supported only within a year), so how alpine handles
> this kind of upgrades? (I mean 3.12 -> 3.13 -> 3.14 -> ....)

I run it on tons of physical servers.

You just do: apk upgrade --available; reboot

Ariadne

Hi,

I've also running it on a ton of servers and had NEVER had a problem 
with it.

I'm just bumping the version in the repositories file with ansible and 
after that an 'apk upgrade -U -a' followed by a reboot.

-- 
Andreas


Am 13.07.20 um 17:31 schrieb Andrey Abramov:
> Hello!
>
> Is it ok to run alpine on a physical server?
> I am talking about upgrades especially - new versions release quite 
> frequently (and are supported only within a year), so how alpine 
> handles this kind of upgrades? (I mean 3.12 -> 3.13 -> 3.14 -> ....)
>