On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 20:37:53 +0100, druck wrote:

> On 26/08/2019 17:25, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> I thought my recent in-situ upgrade (Stretch -> Buster) went
>> surprisingly well seeing that it was the first Raspbian attempt at
>> in-situ upgrades. By and large it 'just worked' even though it took its
>> time (but then so do Fedora in-situ upgrades and they've been doing
>> them for the last 10 distro versions). But, you MUST have Stretch fully
>> updated before attempting it
>
> Over the years I've in-situ upgraded from squeeze > wheezy > jessie >
> stretch > buster, plus upgraded the Pi its running on from B (256M) > B
> (512MB) > 2B > 3B > 3B+ > 4B. Just make sure its up to date on the
> current version and fully backed up before you begin.
>
Yep, agreed, but the Stretch->Buster upgrade was rather different to
simply editing a few files and running the standard update again like we
did previously. Indeed, it has noticeable similarities to the Fedora
version upgrade.


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