10-16-2016, 04:39 PM
Pander,
You are liable to be the first one to try this. If you are afraid of failing, I would not try it. Switching package versions is not the only thing that converts one version of Ubuntu into the next. The recommended way of upgrading does not even always work for x86 CPUs.
If I were going to try this, I would run the program that Ubuntu support recommends:
update-manager
I did this, and after it updated all packages, it checked for and found an upgrade (to Yakkety), just as Ubuntu support says. I canceled at this point, because I am not prepared to wreck my working Pine64 Xenial in an experiment. (I would do this with a backup version, if at all.) I think longsleep is going to stick with xenial because it is a longterm support version, and therefore so will I, so I will have one "known-working" system for Pine64.
The reason I am not confident the upgrade will succeed is that there is no such thing as a standard ARM SOC system, as there is a standard ibm-pc system for Intel x86. It is a surprise to me that this very old kernel works with the much later xenial, because graphics is very much tied to what is in the linux kernel.
You are liable to be the first one to try this. If you are afraid of failing, I would not try it. Switching package versions is not the only thing that converts one version of Ubuntu into the next. The recommended way of upgrading does not even always work for x86 CPUs.
If I were going to try this, I would run the program that Ubuntu support recommends:
update-manager
I did this, and after it updated all packages, it checked for and found an upgrade (to Yakkety), just as Ubuntu support says. I canceled at this point, because I am not prepared to wreck my working Pine64 Xenial in an experiment. (I would do this with a backup version, if at all.) I think longsleep is going to stick with xenial because it is a longterm support version, and therefore so will I, so I will have one "known-working" system for Pine64.
The reason I am not confident the upgrade will succeed is that there is no such thing as a standard ARM SOC system, as there is a standard ibm-pc system for Intel x86. It is a surprise to me that this very old kernel works with the much later xenial, because graphics is very much tied to what is in the linux kernel.