Re: New upgrade report, potato to woody.

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Colin Watson wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 04:42:39PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Thom May wrote:
> > > * Dale Scheetz (dwarf@polaris.net) wrote :
> > > > 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
> > 
> > No, not in this case. A readable list of packages is the only way I know
> > how to compare my end result with my starting position.
> 
> I usually find that --get-selections is preferable, but not because I
> want to feed it back to --set-selections - it's because it doesn't
> truncate package names to a rather short length like -l does. Of course,
> you don't get version numbers this way, so YMMV.

OK, I understand. I just never figured I'd want to return to a Potato
system. Knowing the purpose of --get-selections I just never considered
it. 

Thanks,

Dwarf
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