I upgraded my Plasma 5 install on 64bit Slackware 14.2 with AlienBob's packages. I went from 5_17.01 to 5_17.02. I updated by rsyncing everything and then upgrading per the instructions in the README. Now when I run slackpkg+ it tells me to "upgrade" several packages which are actually downgrades from 5_17.02. Here's the list:

from slackware64:
PyQt-4.11.4-x86_64-1.txz

from ktown
PyQt5-5.7.1-x86_64-1alien.txz
calligra-3.0.0.1-x86_64-1alien.txz
korundum-4.14.3-x86_64-4alien.txz
poppler-0.45.0-x86_64-2alien.txz
pykde4-4.14.3-x86_64-4alien.txz
qt5-5.7.1-x86_64-1alien.txz
qtruby-4.14.3-x86_64-4alien.txz
sip-4.19-x86_64-1alien.txz

If I actually let slackpkg "upgrade" those packages, things break. Most notably: Okular can no longer read PDFs because of the older poppler. Is there any way I can fix it so that slackpkg no longer tries to "upgrade" those beyond blacklisting them? It's obviously hard to know which packages really need to be upgraded.

FWIW, this is the link I use for slackpkgplus.conf for ktown:
http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/ali...latest/x86_64/

Have you run slackpkg update to get the latest info from his servers? If so, you probably need to play with your priority settings in /etc/slackpkg/slackpkgplus.conf

Yes, I did. I also give multilib and ktown priority. Interestingly enough, I upgraded my other box using the slackpkg method and everything works fine there, even with the 0.45 version of poppler, for example. Odd.

Actually, I just realized that I'm an idiot. No surprise there. I accidentally rsynced the -current packages. Amazingly, it works. No idea how. Gotta fix that . . .

Haha... we've all had those moments. Glad you figured it out

My question is why do I always realize that I've had one of those moments AFTER I post on here? Apparently somebody wants my idiocy to be public.

I've had it happen quite a few times, but more frequently as I'm typing up the extremely long and detailed post, I'll have a lightbulb moment right before I hit submit and figure it out.

You just gotta stick around and help others to overshadow your public screwups with plenty of posts of you helping people. At least, that's my goal Nobody will find my idiotic posts if I hide them in a sea of good posts