How to upgrade Bookwormpup64 10.0.6 to 10.0.7?

[Titan_ext]

I am currently using frugal installed BookwormPup64 (10.0.6) with a save folder. I want to upgrade from 10.0.6 to 10.0.7.
I looked around in the forum and was unable to find a post on how to do upgrade BookwormPup64, but I did find one post for Vallina Dpup.

To update your Vanilla Dpup, simply download a newer build and unpack the files:
1) Replace vmlinuz, initrd.gz and ucode.cpio with those from the new build
2) Put *.sfs from the new build in the directory with the files from the older build
3) Once you reboot and everything works, you can delete *.sfs files that came from the old build

Is the method used to upgrade BookwormPup64 the same as quoted above?

[sonny]

My outside-the-box thought...

1. Refer to the changes:

BookwormPup64 10.0.7 Changelog
• New Woof-CE build of BW64 (10 Jul 2024) including upstream Debian 12.6 binary/security updates
• New kernel build (6.1.94) including upstream Debian fixes/updates
• Add CherryTree hierarchical notes manger which replaces the legacy Notecase application. See Note-1 below.
• Add p7zip archiver (thanks wizard)
• Add Technical Notes to Puppy Help resources. Go to Menu -> Help - > About Puppy Linux (technical notes)
• Adjust Help file for the APT package manager: go to Menu -> Help (thanks dimkr and fredx181)
• Adjust Puppy laptop suspend function: If using an external monitor, turn off the laptop internal display on lid close. (thanks dimkr)
• Adjust Help file for the Diffuse compare/merge utility and improve integration of Diffuse with the ROX-Filer and XFE file mangers (thanks MochiMoppel)
• Adjust Filemnt utility to notify users that SFS files with filename spaces are not supported (thanks ozsouth)
• Adjust Exec of gparted.desktop to call the gparted_shell wrapper script which enables user choice of the specific drive to evaluate (thanks bigpup)
• Adjust update-desktop-database utility to accurately sort and append MimeTypes in /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache (thanks MochiMoppel)
• Adjust /etc/os-release information (thanks MochiMoppel, ETP & MikeLvG)
• Update legacy internet connection utilities including simple_network_setup-3.5.2, network_wizard-3.0.2, network_connect_update-20240611 and frisbee-2.0.4 (thanks rerwin)
• Update Puppy Package Manager (PPM) with code refinement and optional web-browser advice window (thanks rerwin)
• Update Grub2config to v2.0.2 -- add custom Grub2 boot-screen (thanks josejp2424 and nilsonmorales); probe drives with parted (rather than fdisk) and fix failed NVME/eMMC/GPT partition detection (thanks wizard)
• Update PackIt archiver to 1.2.4 and UExtract to 4.13 (thanks JakeSFR)
• Update PeasyPDF to 5.2 including compatibility adjustments for Puppy Linux (thanks rcrsn51)
• Update ScreenLiner to 1.1 (thanks MochiMoppel)
• Update Simple GTK Radio to support the searchable (online) Radioshure station database (thanks fredx181), plus additional fixes/updates and several new GUI configuration options
• Update Transmission BitTorrent client to 4.0.6
• Update XFE filemanager to 1.46.1 (thanks wizard)
• Update WeeChat client to 4.3.4
• Update Xournalpp (Notes and PDF annotation) to 1.2.3
• Update Xpad (Sticky notes) to 5.4
• Update Firefox ESR to 128.0, and add new BW64 menu option to run Firefox (as spot) with restricted user status. See Note-2 below.
• Change default auto-update of Firefox ESR to optional update at user's discretion (thanks bigpup)
• Bugfix: incorrect graphic depiction of free partition space by pmount utility (thanks sonny)
• Bugfix: failed APT/Synaptic installation of nvidia video drivers. Addressed by adjusting /usr/sbin/xwin to fix X startup failure when nvidia_drv.so is a symlink. (thanks dimkr)

2. Find their locations (to be overwritten):

/var/packages/builtin_files

[bigpup]

No one has really tried it yet.

I would keep the 10.0.6 good working install and do a new frugal install of 10.0.7

This way you still have a good working version of BookwormPup64 to fall back on.

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Most of the time you can do a frugal install of a newer version of a specific named Puppy.

Copy the save from the older version into the newer version frugal install directory(folder).

Boot it and see how it works.

Anything that was installed that is kernel specific is not going to work.

10.0.6 and 10.0.7 are using different Linux kernels.

Note:
Just did this new frugal install of 10.0.7 and used the save from 10.0.6 copied into it.
Boots OK and seems to be working.
Did get a few messages about some things in the save getting updated.
Have all the settings, configurations, and added software that was in 10.0.6

I could delete the 10.0.6 frugal install, but you never know when it may be needed to get out of a issue with 10.0.7 not working.
nothing wrong with having two frugal installs.

[Titan_ext]

Thanks @bigpup, it worked!

I also took a backup of the save folder using the 'Pupsave Backup' tool prior to doing anything.
Additionally, as you have suggested, I am keeping the 10.0.6 version as a fallback.