Re: How was the slink --> potato switch? How will be potato --> woody? When?
"Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim" <rms46@vlsm.org> wrote on 26/04/2002 (07:53) :
> Hello:
>
> I have just tested this following:
> - get a packet copy using "dpkg --get-selections"
> - put it to a new installed system using "dpkg --set-selections"
> - after installing potato, I changed the sources.list dist to woody
> - besides very slow, it was not straight forward since many
> packages were deleted, but some replacements were not
> inVstalled (e.g. sawmill --> sawfish).
>
> Fortunately, it was just a test system, and not a production one.
Are your systems off-line?
Why didn't you just do: apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade
?
>
> However,
> - may I know what happened during the slink-potato switch period?
> - was there a sufficient grace period before slink was deleted
> from the mirrors?
> - may I know where to get information about potato to woody switch
> plan? what will happen on "May 1st" ?
> - what is better: to use "potato" or "stable" in the production
> systems' sources.list?
isn't potato = stable?
>- is there a way to keep/ save all configuration files, and then
> installing woody from scratch (which is faster)?
Please explain your installation process, because I don't understand
how:
apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade
can be slower.
Preben
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