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Update policy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by oz1sej@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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I used to just update stuff when I could see an update was available. This changed dramatically when a few months ago, I updated Zigbee2mqtt to version 2 and my whole house stopped working. That marked the moment when the other inhabitants in my house decided that the home automation project had gone too far.

Since then, when I saw an update was available, I've waited - preferably until I had seen other people reporting that stuff still worked. But now I've realised, that if I wait too long with an update, another update just comes along...

Can I somehow configure HA to always automatically install e.g. update 2.1.3 once update 2.1.4 becomes available? Or is that a nogo too? I realise that the only sure-fire way to do this is with a staging environment, where everything is tested out before updating the production environment. But how many of us has that kind of a setup?

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Since there is no semantic version locking between versions of different add-ons and such in HA, you may always be at risk of hitting a wall like you describe. Keep backups and rollback, that's about the best you can do.

In the future, they would be smarter to use semver locking so you don't accidentally update something that is incompatible with other versions of things like a package repo, but that's a lot of heavy lifting that will take awhile to sort out.