Updating/upgrading a raspbian OVOS

[wita-sec]

Dear community,

I consider to move from Picroft to OVOS.
Looking through the installation guide for the raspbian headless image I am wondering,
whether the image, once it has been installed and booted, can be updated/upgraded with a newer version of OVOS,
and which would be the steps to follow.

Thank you for your advice.

Michael

[NeonDaniel]

I don't believe any of the current OVOS images have an official upgrade process, but there are some shell scripts that can be used to update python packages. @builderjer might know better than I about that

[builderjer]

There is no real official way, as of yet, but there have been some scripts made. They have not been updated for a while, but you should be able to modify them to what you need.
https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/scripts

[wita-sec]

Thank you our comments and your pointer to the scripts.
BTW, do you maintain a change log and if so please can you point me to that?

[builderjer]

No, this image is still very WIP and doesn't always work completely. When I get a stable image, which it is close, I will do a changelog. The main thing is, every image uses the latest git packages of ovos. When ovos-core 0.1.0 is out, I will do a stable image and go from there.

On a side note, this is just a hobby for me that I wish I had more time for. I Would love feedback, issues, and especially PR's

[builderjer]

could probably automate one, but I haven't had much experience with github actions

[wita-sec]

Your efforts are very much appreciated. I will recomment OVOS.

I had a look into the documentation chapter "install OVOS as a library". At this stage, it appears to be more flexible compared to working with a pre-built image.
I will give this a try, based on the OVOS-Core 0.1.0 stack.