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, -- Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim -- vLSM.org -- http://rms46.vLSM.org -- -- 152.118? 167.205? Ha! --------------------------------------- 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)? -- 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]
