Is there any command or way to upgrade all packages compiled and built manually?

b4str1 · 05-01-2015, 04:57 PM

Hi, I am new in Linux and Slackware.

I want to know if there is any way to upgrade all packages that I compilled and built (With make, make install, etc)

And Also I want to know if there is any register of this packages (To know what I have installed)

Thanks

moesasji · 05-01-2015, 05:06 PM

Have a look at sbopkg.

dugan · 05-01-2015, 05:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by b4str1

And Also I want to know if there is any register of this packages (To know what I have installed)

/var/log/packages
pkgtool
slackpkg (I think)

Didier Spaier · 05-01-2015, 05:30 PM

Let's begin with the second question.

There is a register of all the packages you have installed: that are the files in directories /var/log/packages and /var/log/scripts.[1]

But that works on the condition that you only use the Slackware tools to install them as only these tools update that register, mainly installpkg.

If you use the make, make install method instead of (possibly making yourself Slackware packages with makepkg or running the Slackbuilds @ http://slackbuilds.org then) using installpkg to install Slackware packages, the "packages" (actually, the binaries) that you install won't be registered anywhere.

[1] /var/log/removed_packages and /var/log/removed_scripts register packages removal.

To know more, visit SlackDocs, especially Get acquainted with Slackware.

Now for the way to upgrade: you will just use upgradepkg for genuine Slackware packages and also for the custom ones, but in the latter case you will have to build a new package first, unless you get an upgraded package from a trusted source.

b4str1 · 05-01-2015, 05:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dugan

/var/log/packages
pkgtool
slackpkg (I think)

But packages that I build and installed manually (with make, etc) aren't displayed with pkgtool or when i do a ls of /var/log/packages

Didier Spaier · 05-01-2015, 05:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by b4str1

But packages that I build and installed manually (with make, etc) aren't displayed with pkgtool or when i do a ls of /var/log/packages

No they are not.

PS That's why Slackware users are encouraged to exclusively use Slackware tools to manage their packages, namely explodepkg, installpkg, makepkg, pkgtool, removepkg, upgradepkg and slackpkg. That way they are guaranteed for instance to always be able to cleanly remove a package, and more generally to put their system back in a previous consistent state if need be.

dugan · 05-01-2015, 06:48 PM

Installing packages with "make install" is not considered to be a best practice, but if you do do it, the standard practice is to copy the source directories to /usr/local/src.

In that case, the command to list all "packages" you "installed" with "make install" would be "ls /usr/local/src".

As mentioned, it's better to use "make install" to build a Slackware package:

Code:

mkdir -p /tmp/packageName
make install DESTDIR=/tmp/packageName
cd /tmp/packageName
makepkg -l y -c n /tmp/package-version-arch.txz

Then you'll have a package that you can install with installpkg, and which will be under the control of Slackware's packaging tools. That's how SlackBuild scripts actually work.

As for how to list the contents of source tarballs that you've already make-installed into your filesystem and which you didn't save the source for, well, there's no way to do that on any distro. So stop doing that.

vdemuth · 05-02-2015, 04:38 AM

src2pkg or checkinstall