I mirrored a slackware server to my own rootserver and added it to the list in /etc/slackpkg.
Slackpkg works well for me on my current machine.

I do something similar, but I do updates a little bit more, especially after last big update, when I elected to download the ISO of slackware64-current, and found that the proprietary AMD graphics drivers do not play well with x-server version 14. When I went back to the release of Slackware 14, and upgraded from there, it worked much better.

Because of dialup, slackpkg with a local mirror on usb key kept current from computer at work.

slackroll, of course.

slackpkg and slackpkg+ from zerouno, to update the multilib stuff

When a new release of Slackware is published, and early adopters have pounded on it for a while and Pat + friends have applied a few bugfixes, I assess its new capabilities and my current requirements, and decide whether it makes sense to upgrade.

If so, I choose a noncritical machine, put in a new disk, and make a fresh install of the new release. I mount the old disk to copy over its data, label it with the date, package it, and put it in a drawer as a backup (to be wiped and re-used later if the backup is not needed).

The new machine is stress-tested for a few months, to reveal any problems. I try to hit it with all of my use-cases.

If it passes the stress-test, I upgrade some or all of my other machines as well. If it does not, I may keep the new Slackware on that machine or revert it to the older version, which is known to work. Most of the time this is just a matter of pulling the old disk out of the drawer and putting it back in the machine.

Oompa loompas and a shoe horn.

Oh, how do I keep SLACKWARE updated? Slackpkg...

But did you vote for Slackroll or "Your own update script"?

Slackpkg. My ISP runs a very quick mirror and because I'm a customer the bandwidth is not counted towards my quota.

That's pretty much what I do also - I voted slackpkg, it just works easily with that setup

I recently changed from networkmanager to wicd (as i can use wicd-client on bash) and run slackpkg on bash (no X loaded)

I've been happy ever since.

I'm a bit less efficiently set up than most other respondents: I have firefox live bookmarks set up on page2rss.com feeds for both http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackwa.../ChangeLog.txt and http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackwa.../ChangeLog.txt. I check them when I start up firefox each morning and then run slackpkg at the shell if necessary.

Michael

I was sort of thinking...

If you voted local mirror, do you update using that mirror directly, or do you, like I do, use slackpkg on that local mirror?


This is why I voted slackpkg, as that is what I use regardless of local mirror or non-local mirror.

Perhaps I think to much...