Re: How was the slink --> potato switch? How will be potato --> woody? When?
Hello Again:
Apology for my poor english. Let me try again to express my
concerns:
I believe that most packages will be upgraded when stable
is changed from potato to woody. I guess that that process
will be relatively slower since it has to delete/ replace
the old packages first before installing the new ones.
Therefore, why not just installing from scratch?
My own workstation is already a woody. It was a nightmare
as well as slow when I switched from potato to woody a couple
of months ago. I noticed that installing from scratch is
faster (I was installing another system from scratch that time).
There are a couple of potato production servers at my place.
I copied the package list from one of that server by using
"dpkg --get-selections". Then I installed a new test system
using that package list (using dpkg --set-selections).
First, I installed the potato set, then I tried to upgrade
it to woody. OK, I did not use "apt-get" for upgrading.
Instead, I was using "dselect". The upgrade process was slow,
because many interactive questions were asked.
Therefore, I believe (unlike security patch), that the
upgrading process from potato to woody will not be a "10 minute"
one. Especially, for the ones who maintaining a server farm.
Thus, I would like to know, how **LONG** after woody release, will
potato be kept at the mirrors, before it will be put to the
archive server.
regards,
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Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim -- vLSM.org -- http://rms46.vLSM.org --
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Previously I wrote:
>
> 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
> installed (e.g. sawmill --> sawfish).
>
> Fortunately, it was just a test system, and not a production one.
>
> 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?
> - is there a way to keep/ save all configuration files, and then
> installing woody from scratch (which is faster)?
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Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim -- vLSM.org -- http://rms46.vLSM.org --
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