Thanks! Your first link shows that this has been happening for a while - but I had not encountered it because I was using a different type of installation which did not get automatically updated. I still think that the plain meaning of 'keep your currently-installed version' is not 'copy your currently-installed version with a new name, update its version number, and make some minor changes to comment text in it'! Your second link is also interesting, since the apt upgrade, in modifying the weewx version number in the file, is doing exactly what the FAQ answer tells you not to do!
On Sunday, June 21, 2026 at 3:38:41 PM UTC-4 Vince Skahan wrote: > https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/faq-questions-apt-get-asks and > https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/WeeWX-Frequently-Asked-Questions#should-I-edit-the-weewx-config-file-version-string > > have more info. There have been other threads here in the distant past but > I’m not finding them in a quick search. > > On Sunday, June 21, 2026 at 11:46:13 AM UTC-7 Peter Fletcher wrote: > >> When I upgraded my workhorse Pi 3 to Trixie, I apt installed weewx >> (5.3.01), using a working 5.0 .conf file from a Bookworm installation, and >> it has been working fine for a month or so. Today, when I did my periodic >> sudo apt update/sudo apt full-upgrade sequence, one of the upgrades pulled >> in was weewx (to 5.4.01 - not 100% sure about the last digit). As usual, >> when weewx is involved, in the course of the running of the apt upgrade, I >> was asked which version of weewx.conf to use - there are three or four >> options, includng the default 'keep existing version', which, again as >> usual, I accepted. However, when weewx was restarted by apt, I noticed that >> it was using a differently named .conf file (weewx.conf-5.0.0b16-5.4.0). >> weewx started up normally, and the 'new' .conf file turns out to be a copy >> of my original, with a change in the version parameter from 5.0.0b16 to >> 5.4.0 and a couple of minor changes in some commented text. >> In one sense, it can be argued that the upgrade *did* keep my old >> version of weewx.conf - just under a new name! However, the potential >> problem with this behavior, if I had not noticed the change, is that I >> might make a modification to the original weewx.conf in the future and get >> very confused by its not working! >> I think that this represents a change in behavior, but it may not be a >> recent one, since weewx wasn't apt installed on my bookworm system, and I >> think that this is the first time it has been upgraded by apt on my Trixie >> system. Why is "keep my existing weewx.conf" no longer being taken >> literally? >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/30e41e67-4de4-492c-ac37-6c979931bd07n%40googlegroups.com.
