Swaret is used to update two 9.1 systems and has worked great until ...
One system seems to have lost the record of what's there.

root@webber:~# swaret --list
swaret 1.6.1

=> Creating EXCLUDE List..... DONE!

Listing all available Packages...

No available Packages found!

root@webber:~# swaret --update
swaret 1.6.1

[ ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/dist...ckware-current ]
### Fetching CHECKSUMS List File... DONE!







cat /var/log/swaret

Mon Mar 15 21:41:39 PST 2004: [ GLOBAL ] - swaret --update
Mon Mar 15 21:41:39 PST 2004: [ update_lists() ] - [ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/dist...ckware-current ]
Mon Mar 15 21:41:43 PST 2004: [ update_lists() ] - ### Fetching CHECKSUMS List File... DONE!
Mon Mar 15 21:41:43 PST 2004: [ update_lists() ] -
Mon Mar 15 21:41:43 PST 2004: [ update_lists() ] -
Mon Mar 15 21:41:43 PST 2004: [ update_lists() ] -
Mon Mar 15 21:41:43 PST 2004: [ update_lists() ] -

I've made no changes to the config file since I set it up. VERSION=current

Any ideas as to what went wrong? My first instinct is to remove & reinstall the package, but experience tells me thinking it through and asking questions might be a better approach.

Im not sure how you would go about fixing that.. but I would just go ahead and reinstall with a newer version. It could be that the server you are getting the packages from is no longer available or was down at the time of running swaret.

Did you try: # swaret --update

That will update the list of all available packages, patches, etc.

I personally run it immediately before running any other swaret command so the list is always up-to-date

HTH

Regards...

You might as well update to swaret 1.6.2-1 ..

And try changing the servers in /etc/swaret.conf to exclude some that might fail..

As for the updates, i haven't seen any new ones for the past 2 weeks or so. just visit http://slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=i386 and check over there to see if the top fixes are the latest ones you have installed.

Thanks for the replies. Maybe I wasn't clear on a couple of points.

--update goes through the motions, but instead of displaying the lists being updated it spits out blank lines (see the output in my original post).

--list should show all installed packages. Instead, it shows nothing.

The swaret.conf file lists several sites to be used for updates and the system seems to look for them, falling through to subsequent sites if the first ones are not available. It's not as though it errors out from not finding them.

Is there a way to force swaret to rescan the installed base - like updatedb for slocate?

Where is the list of installed and updated packages kept? I'd like to look at it for clues.

Again, I would sort of like to fix (or at least understand) the problem before blindly installing or ripping out anything. I don't *think* I did anything to bring this on, but it's certainly possible.

You definately need to update to 1.6.2-1. The way the FILELIST.TXT file was formated changed and 1.6.1 can't handle it, hence why no packages are being listed.

That worked.
Thank you very much for the replies and the explanations.

rm -R /var/swaret/.cache/*

If you run into this problem again.




(Dont worry swaret will make a new one, this just clears swarets cache)

Is swaret beeing replaced with slackpkg?