Re: Re: how do i know i need a reboot after a console based "upgrade"?

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 15:33 +0100, Gabriel Dragffy
wrote:
>> if you do 'upgrade' then you shouldn't need to
restart for the 
>> changes to take effect. If you do a 'dist-upgrade'
then generally you 
>> will need to restart for the changes to take
effect. 
> 
> No, the difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade is
just that upgrade
> will never uninstall packages to resolve dependencies,
while
> dist-upgrade will. See "man apt-get" or
"man aptitude"
> 
> 
I see.
It's just been my experience that 'upgrade' will install
packages and 
not require a restart. But the few packages that do require
a restart, 
e.g. kernel updates, will only be installed when the command

'dist-upgrade' is issued.

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Gabriel Dragffy wrote:

> But the few packages that do require a restart,
> e.g. kernel updates, will only be installed when the
command 
> 'dist-upgrade' is issued.

That's incorrect.  The kernel is a normal package, and is
updated by
apt-get upgrade .

Matt Flaschen

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Gabriel Dragffy wrote:

> Mario Vukelic wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 15:33 +0100, Gabriel Dragffy
wrote:
>>> if you do 'upgrade' then you shouldn't need to
restart for the
>>> changes to take effect. If you do a
'dist-upgrade' then generally you
>>> will need to restart for the changes to take
effect.
>> 
>> No, the difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade
is just that upgrade
>> will never uninstall packages to resolve
dependencies, while
>> dist-upgrade will. See "man apt-get" or
"man aptitude"
>> 
>> 
> I see.
> It's just been my experience that 'upgrade' will
install packages and
> not require a restart. But the few packages that do
require a restart,
> e.g. kernel updates, will only be installed when the
command
> 'dist-upgrade' is issued.

That would be true, but you stated the converse - not that
you will only
need to reboot on a "dist-upgrade", but that when
you do "dist-upgrade" you
will (generally) need to reboot.

The latter entirely depends how often you do a dist-upgrade.
 I do a
dist-upgrade _every day_.  I rarely need to reboot 
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