"Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim" <rms46@vlsm.org> wrote on 26/04/2002 (16:57) : > 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.
I don't know, but I expect not long. Do apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade instead of dselect. Do not reinstall. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
