Re: Upgrading custom personal builds of ipfire

Re: Upgrading custom personal builds of ipfire

[Michael Tremer]

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Hello Ed,

And welcome to the list.

> On 15 Mar 2022, at 23:11, Ed Sweetman <cellsafemode(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've been looking for any kind of documentation on the ability to upgrade / test personal builds of ipfire and couldn't find any. 
> 
> I build a customized version of ipfire for personal use and obviously can't use the normal network upgrade but i dont see an option to point to a usb drive for a new build or anywhere other than the official servers. What is the preferred way to do this?  Is there a way to upgrade offline without clean installing over or some way to set a personal build on a machine as a local repo mirror?  
> 
> Figure there's got to be a way to test the upgrade process locally..
> 
> thanks for any help. 

I am not entirely sure if I am getting it right what you are saying. If you:

a) Have a custom version with custom changes, installing any updates from our package repositories might overwrite those changes; or

b) You just want to upgrade to the latest testing version after having already installed a test version from the unstable or testing repository?

In case of a), the only way is to build your own updates that you host somewhere and you make sure you have all your own changes in your updates.

Does this help?

-Michael