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)? regards, -- Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim -- vLSM.org -- http://rms46.vLSM.org -- -- 152.118? 167.205? Ha! --------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
