On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:00:32PM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > 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?
If you install from scratch, you'll need to reconfigure everything. In my experience, you'll be done a lot quicker if you just do the dist-upgrade. dist-upgrading also saves you the time of installing a new base system. > 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). Was the install from scratch CD-based and the upgrade network-based? The only part of a dist-upgrade that I consider to be slow is waiting for packages to download. An easy way around that is to do `apt-get -d dist-upgrade` just before going to bed/going home from work, letting the packages download overnight, and then `apt-get dist-upgrade`ing the next day. > 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. The only questions which come up during an upgrade are those which would also be asked on a fresh install and those that result from config files having been customized after installation[1]. The first type can be ignored, since they'll be there either way. As for the second type, I would expect answering the question to take less time than repeating your customizations. [1] OK, not strictly true. There are also things like the postgres database format changing from potato to woody, but they're pretty rare. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
