"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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
