slackpkg update and upgrade-all still working for 12.2?

mutexe · 10-22-2009, 04:43 AM

Morning all,
I'm back to tackle slackware again after a few months off. I actually missed messing around with it!
I tried a 'slackpkg update' and 'slackpkg upgrade-all' from the console last night, but from the messages back I got the idea I was all up to date. Bearing in mind i have even booted into my slack partition in 3 or 4 months, would you expect this to be true?

Cheers,

mute

brianL · 10-22-2009, 05:34 AM

Have a look at 12.2's ChangeLog on the mirror you use.

gegechris99 · 10-22-2009, 05:36 AM

Hello,

To which mirror are you pointing to? -current or 12.2.

If it's -current, then you have missed new packages and could also clean up old packages:

Code:

slackpkg install-new
slackpkg clean-system

mutexe · 10-22-2009, 07:15 AM

i believe it's 12.2, not current. I'll check when i'm home tonight. How do I get to this changelog? Is it on my machine or the slackware website? Sorry if they're stupid questions.

Thanks for the help guys,
mute

brianL · 10-22-2009, 07:24 AM

Click on "Get Slack" on the Slackware website, choose your mirror, choose the release directory.
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/f.../ChangeLog.txt

mutexe · 10-22-2009, 08:01 AM

Cheers Brian, i'll give it a go tonight.
Feels good to be back

brianL · 10-22-2009, 08:17 AM

I had that UK mirror set in my /etc/slackpkg/mirrors because it gave a good download speed, but it was always a couple of days late catching up with Slackware.com's ChangeLog - so I changed it to:
http://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub...lackware-12.2/

I use that mirror for 13.0 too.

bogzab · 10-22-2009, 05:02 PM

For what it's worth I recently ran update and upgrade-all from the mirror :
ftp://mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.sl...lackware-12.1/
- looks like I did so on Aug 15th and again on Sept 28th and all went
well with various packages getting updated.

mutexe · 10-23-2009, 04:05 AM

Cheers guys.
I commented out my mirror line in the mirrors file and added the one brianL put his his last post. This time it updated okay

Woot!

Now i need to get my laptop seeing my router, then I think i'm almost there!

Thanks again,

mute