Re: New upgrade report, potato to woody.
* Dale Scheetz (dwarf@polaris.net) wrote :
> OK, I've finally completed my second attempt at a smooth potato upgrade to
> woody. Things went much better this time, but there are still some slight
> gotcha's that will need to be detailed in the upgrade notes.
>
> 1. I highly recomment doing a 'dpkg -l >old-packages.list' before the
> upgrade.
is this not what 'dpkg --get-selections >old-packages.list' is for? ( the benefit of that is
you can just feed the list back to dpkg using 'dpkg --set-selections <
old-packages.list' afterwards.
Cheers,
-Thom
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