* Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote :
> OK, I've finally completed my second attempt at a smooth potato upgrade to
> woody. Things went much better this time, but there are still some slight
> gotcha's that will need to be detailed in the upgrade notes.
> 
> 1. I highly recomment doing a 'dpkg -l >old-packages.list' before the
>    upgrade.
is this not what 'dpkg --get-selections >old-packages.list' is for? ( the 
benefit of that is
you can just feed the list back to dpkg using 'dpkg --set-selections <
old-packages.list' afterwards.

Cheers,
-Thom

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