POTATO to WOODY: reinstall vs. upgrade test result

["Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim" <rms46@vlsm.org>]

Hello:

These following are three tests of "switching to woody". They were 
conducted on a Pentium 200Mhz/ 32Mbyte RAM/ 4 Gbyte IDE Disk/
eepro100 ethernet board. The result may be interesting, if you have 
a simple X11 system with KDE (potato) and default settings. The 
list of 262 packages to install are available at 
http://vLSM.org/etc/sangam.vlsm.org.20020430.gz


1. Test #1 (upgrade)

   Method:
   - change "potato" to "woody" in /etc/apt/sources.list
   - run apt-get update
   - run apt-get dist-upgrade
   - fine tuning using dselect

   Result:
   - it took almost 90 minutes to proceed, including
     * it aborted after 40 minutes because of kdebase-libs, 
       kdelibs3-bin, and kdelibs3 version conflict.
     * package download from the intranet 6 minutes 
       (164Mbytes: 238 upgrade/ 76 new/ 5 remove/ 3 not upgraded).
   - yet more 20 minutes for fine tuning (dselect)


2. Test #2 (woody reinstall from scratch)

   Method:
   - dpkg --get-selections the packages
   - install CDROM netinst: woody-3.0.18-2001-12-21
   - install woody basics
   - dpkg --set-selections the packages
   - apt-get dselect-upgrade
   - fine tuning using dselect

   Result:
   - the netinst was less then 15 minutes 
   - then took less then 25 minutes for upgrading 
     (including 5 minutes package download 150 Mbytes: 
     0 up/235 rm/0 rm/0 not up)
   - yet only 9 minutes more for fine tuning


3. Test #3 (woody reinstall from potato)

   Method:
   - install CDROM potato 2.2r6
   - dpkg --get-selections the packages
   - change "potato" to "woody" in /etc/apt/sources.list
   - run apt-get update
   - run apt-get dist-upgrade
   - dpkg --set-selections the packages
   - apt-get dselect
   - fine tuning using dselect

   Result:
   - the potato/woody reinstall was less then 10 minutes 
   - then took only about 25 minutes for upgrading 
     (including 5 minutes package download 150 Mbytes: 
     0 up/203 rm/1 rm/0 not up)
   - yet only 5 minutes more for fine tuning
   

Note:
Debconf was set to "Readline/Critical only", and it prompted at:
libc6, base-passwd, console-common, sysvinit, login, groff-base,
lilo, ppp, and man-db.


Any comments?

-- 
Rahmat M.  Samik-Ibrahim -- vLSM.org -- http://rms46.vLSM.org --
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