Beta testing • Re: rpi-self-update

Would I expect this at the end of the above install?
Notice: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '/home/pi/rpi-self-update_1.0-1_arm64.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

That is normal. apt would prefer to drop privileges during the early stages when it is "downloading" packages and resolving dependencies. But presumably your home directory is not world-searchable (o+x), so it cannot be accessed by other unprivileged users. So apt falls back to running as root, which is not really a concern because it will need to run as root during the install stage anyway.

I got a more serious error from apt:The system is 32bit. I do not see any reason that the scripts need to be a Debian package anyway, so I cloned the git repo instead.

Looking at the source, I do not think I trust it to realise that bullseye has the FAT mounted on /boot, rather than /boot/firmware.

I am brave enough to attempt a conversion from bullseye32 to trixie64 remotely. I have done this kind of thing myself using tools such as debootstrap. I would not be brave enough to release scripts to do it. I am not sure who this project is for.

Statistics: Posted by jojopi — Fri Jun 19, 2026 11:13 pm

---