On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 21:45:50 +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

> druck  writes:
>> 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.
>
> In particular you won’t get a new kernel without a reboot.
>
>>> 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!
>
> Indeed. It’s worked like that for decades.

OK. Seems like my punkin been baking way too long.


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