On 28/08/2019 19:41, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> I did exactly what it said in this page:
>
> https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/buster-the-new-version-of-raspbian/
>
> and thought that running "sudo apt dist-upgrade" worked somewhat
> differently to the Jessie -> Stretch upgrade - in particular because dist-
> upgrade promptly pulled down a large selection of packages before
> installing them (with periodic questions about how I wanted deal with
> several specific packages), before completing the process with a reboot.

That's the way every Debian based distro does it! All packages are
download first on any upgrade, during installation some may ask
questions when altering config files. A reboot is performed to ensure
all the new packages are now being run

You can get away without rebooting after minor upgrades, but you will
have to restart anything application or service that has been upgraded,
as otherwise the old versions will carry on running.

> This is similar to the in-situ version upgrade that Fedora has used for
> the last five years, i.e. not like the Wheezy->Jessie and Jessie->Stretch
> upgrades, which IIRC were just a rather larger update and without an
> immediate reboot being required.

I don't recall Wheezy, Jessie and Stretch doing anything different than
the above!

---druck

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