Re: OFFTOPIC: upgrading distro without rebooting

[Jonas S. <jo...@jo...>]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Jake Skinner wrote:

> I'm curious too
>
> > You can't upgrade a distro with out rebooting.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 16:27, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, John Berninger wrote:
> > >
> > > > Aside: the only reason I haven't upgraded to RHL 7.2 is ego - I like my
> > > > 130 day uptime - I want to beat a friend's 280-some-odd day uptime. :)
> > >
> > > For the sake of ego: Switch to Debian - then you can upgrade without
> > > rebooting ;-)

Ok ok - it is not a secret: Have a search on Google for "Debian upgrade
without reboot" and read the first two entries (and it isn't bleeding edge
either - that second hit is from may 2000!).

I have succesfully upgraded a machine in Denmark, Europe from San
Francisco, US using ssh. It really just needed 2 commands and then
accepting the defaults a bunch of times (no, not a special script - the
core packaging system of Debian, APT)!

Sure, if you want to run a newer _kernel_ a reboot is needed, but that is
separate from upgrading the distro.

I'd be happy to discuss this further, but let's move it away from the
mailinglist. Drop a mail to de...@jo..., that one is stored on web as
well if someone feels like joining later on :-)

And sorry, Dieter, I'll try and stick to the topic. I really appreciate
the clean (and non-distro-specific) design of SQL-Ledger. Keep up the
great work!

 - Jonas

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