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Slackpkg cannot find packages, swaret can

Hi all,

I have a strange problem, I tried slackpkg while I was running 10.2 and I got a flawless upgrade to 11.0.
But after that slackpkg stopped working, I try to keep up with swaret that is quite a nice tool as well but since slackpkg proved to be so good I want to stick with it.

When I run:

Code:

slackpkg update

it seems ok, but when I run

Code:

slackpkg upgrade somepackage

Code:

slackpkg upgrade-all

I get errors saying it cannot find the package, if I install a new one works.

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Did you change slackpkg's mirrors to point to a 11.0 mirror?

I sure did, otherwise wouldn't have upgraded to 11.0

Can you give some specific examples of packages you were upgrading as well as the output you got? I'm not having a problem with slackpkg here. When you run slackpkg update do you get this message?

Code:

No changes in ChangeLog.txt between your last update and now.

This is the output of the update:

Code:

No changes in ChangeLog.txt between your last update and now.

                Do you really want to download all other files (y/N)?

Now when I ran:

Code:

slackpkg upgrade-all

Or anything for that matter I get:

Code:

Resolving ftp.belnet.be... 193.190.198.20, 2001:6a8:3c80:0:203:baff:fe39:f931

Connecting to ftp.belnet.be|193.190.198.20|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 4,061 (4.0K) [text/html]



100%[====================================>] 4,061          8.06K/s            



18:41:47 (8.05 KB/s) - `/var/cache/packages/index.html.33' saved [4061/4061]



--18:41:47--  http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/slackware/slackware-11.0/.asc

          => `/var/cache/packages/.asc'

Resolving ftp.belnet.be... 193.190.198.20, 2001:6a8:3c80:0:203:baff:fe39:f931

Connecting to ftp.belnet.be|193.190.198.20|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found

18:41:48 ERROR 404: Not Found.



md5sum: /var/cache/packages/Error:: No such file or directory

        ERROR - Package not installed! gpg error!

It doesn't matter which mirror I choose.

I can't make that error happen here...

Is slackpkg only checking official Slackware packages? In other words, have any of the packages installed on your system from your original installation been updated by any other means (linuxpackages.net, etc.)?

Well yes but are not system related.

I have wlassistant,wmwifi,3ddesktop and OpenOffice.

Those should not cause any problems.

Quote:

Originally Posted by mago

Now when I ran:

Code:

slackpkg upgrade-all

Or anything for that matter I get:

Code:

Resolving ftp.belnet.be... 193.190.198.20, 2001:6a8:3c80:0:203:baff:fe39:f931

Connecting to ftp.belnet.be|193.190.198.20|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 4,061 (4.0K) [text/html]



100%[====================================>] 4,061          8.06K/s            



18:41:47 (8.05 KB/s) - `/var/cache/packages/index.html.33' saved [4061/4061]



--18:41:47--  http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/slackware/slackware-11.0/.asc

          => `/var/cache/packages/.asc'

Resolving ftp.belnet.be... 193.190.198.20, 2001:6a8:3c80:0:203:baff:fe39:f931

Connecting to ftp.belnet.be|193.190.198.20|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found

18:41:48 ERROR 404: Not Found.



md5sum: /var/cache/packages/Error:: No such file or directory

        ERROR - Package not installed! gpg error!

There's something strange about the file list that slackpkg is retrieving for your system. I'd expect to see /var/cache/packages/packagename.tgz and then /var/cache/packages/packagename.tgz.asc as the local files that are downloaded. You have /var/cache/packages/index.html.33 and /var/cache/packages/.asc and slackpkg isn't finding the .asc file on the remote server.

I don't normally suggest uninstalling/reinstalling because it doesn't identify what went wrong. However, slackpkg reconstructs its data files without problem so... have/can you try uninstalling slackpkg, making sure that /etc/slackpkg is removed and then reinstall slackpkg? You should be able to drop in the slackpkg.conf, mirrors and blacklist files from a backup and it will work properly.

Did you (manually) upgrade to the latest version of slackpkg?

Well I did uninstall it as Gilead suggested, and I delete manually /etc/slackpkg.

Then I looked for the slackpkg of current which is the same that comes with the 11.0 and reinstalled it and I get the exact same thing.

Running out of ideas.....

Thanks for the suggestions doe.

I just started getting this exact problem yesterday when attempting to upgrade fetchmail. Any progress here? ...Steve

same with me. It says it can't find ...../.asc. Tried different mirrors too, and no results :(

Quote:

Connecting to ftp.belnet.be|193.190.198.20|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
18:41:48 ERROR 404: Not Found....

Another mirror mayhaps? :)

I don't think so. In my case, the first file it tries to update is the "xargs" file (!!!!!). AFAIK, is a bug in slackpkg, triggered when trying to upgrade a package with previous patches.

Just to be sure... how many of us are trying to update the "bind" package??
has anybody been able to upgrade it successfully after the last security update?

Yes, slackpkg has never failed for me in the last 3 years, "bind" update included.