On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 12:21:27PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 04/11/2015 09:08, KatolaZ a écrit : > >Thank you very much. Very nice guide, but please: do not urge people > >to reboot, ever. There is simply no need at all to reboot, and in the > >ovewhelming majority of use cases it is not necessary at all to use > >the latest kernel available, unless using "the kernel shipped with > >Devuan" is the only way for you to get a crappy device finally > >work. But if your crappy devices are already working, just avoid > >rebooting, unless you need to power the system down for some other > >reason. > > Rebooting several times during an upgrade is the Windows > fashion, and it's satisfactory that you don't need it when upgrading > a Linux system. > > But it happened to me some times in the past that my Debian box > didn't restart properly after even a simple apt-get upgrade, not to > talk of a dist-upgrade. Therefore I can understand that one is eager > to immediately check that it works.
Yes Didier, I acknowledge that I was a bit too harsh, and indeed a reboot is sometimes needed upon some specific updates. I just wanted to warn ourselves about the later confusion between "sometimes needed upon some specific updates" and "compulsory whenever you have used aptitude to install a package or launched an apt-get upgrade" :) My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
