DietPi update about dietpi

[Joulinar]

Guys this is a development branch. Not even in Beta status. But thx for reporting.

[MichaIng]

Fixed with: 7badaa5

In your cases, if you fixed it manually via touch or alike, no need to do anything else, as this is precisely what the pre-patch does as well. However, I suggest to switch back to master branch, unless you want to test something specific from the development branch.

[Trimble-tech]

I had the same issue on a RPi4B; opening a sub-shell in the /tmp directory shows the pre-patch_file, server_version-6, and the dev.tar.gz not being present. Also, when running DietPi-BugReport the process was unable to finish after extended wait.

Below is the details output by the update error:

• Date | Thu Jan 11 11:29:39 EST 2024
• DietPi version | v9.-1.0 (MichaIng/dev)
• Image creator |
• Pre-image |
• Hardware | RPi 4 Model B (aarch64) (ID=4)
• Kernel version | Linux Piper2 6.1.21-v8+ #1642 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 3 17:24:16 BST 2023 aarch64 GNU/Linux
• Distro | bookworm (ID=7,RASPBIAN=0)
• Command | rm dev.tar.gz DietPi-dev/dietpi/pre-patch_file DietPi-dev/dietpi/server_version-6
• Exit code | 1
• Software title | DietPi-Update
  Based on the details I see here and in the original post, I believe the issue is due to the test images getting upgraded to Bookworm earlier; the updater is looking for files that don't exist due to it. In particular, they are the following in my case:
• /tmp/DietPi-Update/DietPi-dev/dietpi/pre-patch_file
• /tmp/DietPi-Update/DietPi-dev/dietpi/server_version-6
• /tmp/Dietpi-Update/dev.tar.gz

I opened a sub-shell and touched all of these files (touch filename) to create them, then the update proceeded as normal. So far my system works and reports version 9.0.0 (dev) but I am unsure if this is a reasonable fix for the problem.

[MichaIng]

Generally, if you are not aware that you were on a (naturally unstable) development branch:

G_CONFIG_INJECT 'DEV_GITBRANCH=' 'DEV_GITBRANCH=master' /boot/dietpi.txt

I was tinkering with removing the obsolete DietPi v6 files from the repo last night. I thought I had fixed it, worked on my VM finally, but seems it was too late and I was too tired.

DietPi version | v9.-1.0 (MichaIng/dev)

Hmm, that alone is strange already, it should be v9.0.-1 🤔.
EDIT: Ah nope all right if you were on v9.0.-1 before. Then v9.-1.0 would be an intermediate step to v9.0.0, to have the v9.0 patches applied again on the patch version increment.

EDIT: Ah, and now I know what the issue is: When the system was on v9.0 already but did this just as patch version update, the intended pre-patch is not applied.