Unable to update rpi-eeprom

Troubleshooting
1

Creating a bug report/issue

[Y] I have searched the existing open and closed issues

Required Information

  • DietPi version -
    G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE=9
    G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=2
    G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=1
    G_GITBRANCH=‘beta’
    G_GITOWNER=‘MichaIng’

  • Distro version -
    bookworm 0

  • Kernel version -
    Linux PiHole 6.1.21-v8+ #1642 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 3 17:24:16 BST 2023 aarch64 GNU/Linux

  • Architecture -
    arm64

  • SBC model -
    RPi 4 Model B (aarch64)

  • Power supply used -
    OEM RPi Supplied

  • SD card used -
    SanDisk 128GB

Additional Information (if applicable)

  • Software title -
    DietPi OS

  • Was the software title installed freshly or updated/migrated? -
    Upgrade

  • Can this issue be replicated on a fresh installation of DietPi? -
    Not going down that route

  • Bug report ID -
    d987fb99-717b-4b29-a264-bb80c862e580

Steps to reproduce

Usually run the following:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get autoremove

Also tried to use this:
sudo apt-get upgrade

Expected behaviour

Updates should install without any issues.

Actual behaviour

The following packages have been kept back:
rpi-eeprom

Extra details

Started a couple of days ago, no other chanages to system.

2

I don’t use linix day to day
DietPi is setup soley for PiHole
Any help would be much appreciated

Thank you

3

There was an issue some months ago but in the meantime iit should be resolved already
https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/6747
:thinking:

4

Thank you Jappe!

The following command seems to have resolved the issue:

apt-get -y --with-new-pkgs upgrade

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  python3-pycryptodome
The following packages will be upgraded:
  rpi-eeprom
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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