[SOLVED] Do I have to do a full upgrade before switching to current?

ahc_fan · 12-03-2015, 04:31 PM

From a fresh install is it ok to upgrade straight to current without upgrading 14.1 first?

ReaperX7 · 12-03-2015, 04:37 PM

Yes, it'll be like an update anyway.

Just make sure you run things in this order:

Code:

slackpkg update
slackpkg install-new
slackpkg upgrade-all
slackpkg clean-system

Clean system will remove any packages no longer supported, which is usually very few in numbers.

ahc_fan · 12-03-2015, 04:45 PM

Thanks. I figured so but my internet is crap and the upgrade takes a while so I didn't want to make a mistake and have to redo it.

Tonus · 12-03-2015, 05:15 PM

It might be easier and safer to download the packages trough rsync and perform the upgrade using offline tools...
Running the rsync command a second time will assure you that all is well downloaded.

astrogeek · 12-03-2015, 05:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ahc_fan

Thanks. I figured so but my internet is crap and the upgrade takes a while so I didn't want to make a mistake and have to redo it.

As Tonus says, you would be better served to download the current packages first, then update from the local copies. That way if the download is interrupted you will not end up with a broken system.

To make it easy use Alien's Slackware Mirror Scirpt. Keeping the local repo in sync with the official repos in future is then quick and painless.

andrew.46 · 12-03-2015, 06:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReaperX7

Clean system will remove any packages no longer supported, which is usually very few in numbers.

I manually find the removed packages by parsing the ChangeLog:

Code:

grep -a 'Removed.$' ChangeLog.txt | \
sed -e 's#^.*/##g' -e 's#:.*Removed.$##g' | \
tr '\n' ' ' > ../now_use_removepkg

A little clumsy but it has worked well so far...

Edit: Oops, looks like 'clean-system' also removes 3rd party packages which I don't do and is not addressed by my little snippet...

ReaperX7 · 12-03-2015, 06:44 PM

If you use SBo, check the /etc/slackpkg/blacklist file and uncomment the SBo argument.

andrew.46 · 12-03-2015, 07:19 PM

It looks like a beautifully made script

BCarey · 12-03-2015, 09:26 PM

You could also take a "hybrid" approach by manually downloading and installing/upgrading the -current packages and then use "slackpkg clean-system" to remove the obsolete packages.