Slpkg New Slackware packaging tool

Slpkg v2.6.6 just released and bring new features.
Homepage: https://github.com/dslackw/slpkg

In option tracking package dependencies we can drawing image map
like this:
pygraphviz required.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ds...lpkg/deps2.png

nice project!

Originally Posted by ricardson nice project!

Thank you

slpkg upgrade 442 packages and install 11, with successfully (include kernel) in -current release.

http://pastebin.com/p2ufxUgC

Hi Dimitris

I have 2 question about package upgrade by slpkg

1. How to exclude slpkg from reinstalling updated dependencies?

2. How to treat slpkg so that it upgrade packages only from same repositories. I found out that some repos (mainly slackonly) tries to upgrade packages installed from other repos.

Thanks again for your great project

Originally Posted by travis82 Hi Dimitris I have 2 question about package upgrade by slpkg 1. How to exclude slpkg from reinstalling updated dependencies? 2. How to treat slpkg so that it upgrade packages only from same repositories. I found out that some repos (mainly slackonly) tries to upgrade packages installed from other repos. Thanks again for your great project

Hi travis82,

Replies:

1. This applies only to binary repositories. At present there is no choice.

2. Depository slackonly and sbo have the same packages. Slpkg check the packages installed by their name.

Hi travis82,
slpkg v3.0.4 released and solve your question 1

Thanks

Originally Posted by dslackw Hi travis82, slpkg v3.0.4 released and solve your question 1 Thanks

That's a nice improvement, thank you very much.

Edit: sorry, the post was duplicated.

I have just started using slpkg. I looks very good and user-friendly. I am trying to install a program named xoscope, but getting following error:

root[cardio]# slpkg -F xoscope Packages with name matching [ xoscope ] +============================================================================== | Repository Package Size +============================================================================== slonly xoscope-2.1-i486-1_slack.txz 164 K Found summary =============================================================================== Total found 1 packages in 1 repositories. root[abcde]# root[abcde]# root[abcde]# slpkg -f xoscope Packages with matching name [ xoscope ] No such package xoscope: Can't find root[abcde]# root[abcde]# slpkg -i xoscope Cannot install xoscope: file not found root[abcde]#

Why slpkg is not installing this program?

Originally Posted by rng I have just started using slpkg. I looks very good and user-friendly. I am trying to install a program named xoscope, but getting following error: Why slpkg is not installing this program?

run

slpkg upgrade

or

slpkg update

and try again.

works on me.

Thanks. It did not work after 'slpkg update' but worked after 'slpkg upgrade' and with command 'slpkg -s slonly xoscope'

I want to clarify one more thing. Let us say I have 2 packages p1 and p2 installed, both of which depend on a dependency package d1. Then if I run following command:

slpkg -r p1 --deps

will dependency package d1 be removed from the system (along with p1)? Because d1 is still needed by p2 and removing it will lead to a failure to package p2 to run.

Originally Posted by rng Thanks. It did not work after 'slpkg update' but worked after 'slpkg upgrade' and with command 'slpkg -s slonly xoscope' I want to clarify one more thing. Let us say I have 2 packages p1 and p2 installed, both of which depend on a dependency package d1. Then if I run following command: will dependency package d1 be removed from the system (along with p1)? Because d1 is still needed by p2 and removing it will lead to a failure to package p2 to run.

You can control the dependencies with the command (provided they have been installed with slpkg):

slpkg deps-status

if you are not sure about the dependencies of the package that will remove, add the options "--check-deps" or "--checklist" to help you:

slpkg -r p1 --deps --check-deps

or

slpkg -r p1 --deps --checklist

Thanks and congratulations on building such good package manager. When can we expect a GUI version of slpkg?

Thank you,

I'm not a fan of GUI