Yes, there is a packaged version, so, yes, you do a package upgrade. NOTE: the release candidate is in a temporary apt repository, as outlined in the first message of this thread.
On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 3:11 PM <rcsta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey All, > > > > I’m going to give this a go, but want to confirm based on this: > https://weewx.com/docs/5.0/upgrade/ > > > > I’m just running on a raspi, and installed via apt, so I should just be > able to do as documented here and upgrade this way? I swear a few months > back there wasn’t going to be a packaged version of 5, and the emphasis was > pushing toward using pip… that changed along the way? (sorry for being > oblivious to that change, I try to at least glance at all the emails via > this list, I must have just missed it). > > > > Thanks! > > > > *From:* weewx-development@googlegroups.com < > weewx-development@googlegroups.com> *On Behalf Of *Tom Keffer > *Sent:* Thursday, December 21, 2023 3:07 PM > *To:* weewx-development <weewx-development@googlegroups.com> > *Subject:* [weewx-development] V5.0 release candidate available > > > > Celebrate the solstice (coming up in 4 hours) and the start of Winter with > a WeeWX release candidate! > > > > *Changes since b17* > > We gave up on a standalone logger and have gone back to whatever your > system uses. This is more robust to permission problems, but may make it > harder to get the logs back out. See the wiki article *View logs > <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/view-logs>* for tips on how to > convince your system to let you have a look. > > > > As always, you can add a [Logging] section to weewx.conf and set up your > own rotating log system. See the article *WeeWX V4 and logging > <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/WeeWX-v4-and-logging>* for how to do > this. > > > > *Pip* > > > > For pip installs, please delete your old virtual environment, then install > from scratch by following the pip install instructions > <https://weewx.com/docs/5.0/quickstarts/pip/#install-in-a-virtual-environment>. > While upgrading should work, we are particularly interested in the > experience of a new install, including setting up a daemon and udev files. > Make sure to follow the new instructions that use a daemon setup script. > > > > > > *Debian* > > > > For Debian package installs, modify /etc/apt/sources.list as follows: > > *echo "deb [arch=all] https://weewx.com/apt-test/python3 > <https://weewx.com/apt-test/python3> buster main" | sudo tee > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/weewx.list* > > Note the "apt-test". This tells apt to look there for the beta release, > instead of the normal repository. You may want to change it back when > you're done. > > > > > > *Red Hat* > > > > For Red Hat package installs, put this in /etc/yum.repos.d/weewx.repo > > *[weewx]* > > *name=weewx* > > *baseurl=http://weewx.com/yum-test/weewx/el9 > <http://weewx.com/yum-test/weewx/el9>* > > *enabled=1* > > Note the "yum-test". This tells yum to look there for the beta release, > instead of the normal repository. Again, you may want to change things back > when you're done. > > > > > > *What we're looking for* > > > > 1. We are interested in your upgrade experience. Did the installers get > your configuration file right? Skins? Is the daemon configured correctly? > > > > 2. With this release, we have included udev rules to set the correct > permissions for devices. Did it work? If not, did unplugging then > replugging the device work? > > > > 3. How about logging? Is it going to your system logger? Do the labels > look reasonable? > > > > *Thanks!* > > > > -Tom & Matt > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-development" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to weewx-development+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/CAPq0zECFSEWf9immM3fFroWU79GcYyT65ibe8w1hWd-XJ92s1g%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/CAPq0zECFSEWf9immM3fFroWU79GcYyT65ibe8w1hWd-XJ92s1g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-development+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/CAPq0zEBkSBKKss8spyJj1P85hk8v%2BTeKojNo6OAq6%2BRYAHtqxQ%40mail.gmail.com.
