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