Updating Slack

65_289 · 01-29-2003, 04:12 PM

I have been fiddling with Mandrake 9.0 for a while now, and I am ready for a little more challenge. So I am going to pick up Debian and Slackware, and play with each of these. My question is redarding upgrading packages. I know RH, Mandrake, and Debian (among others) have some programs for getting updates. Does Slack have anything like this? I know some might say "the point of slack is to do things for yourself", but I like the idea of having cron run apt-get update twice a week. Thanks!

hjles · 01-29-2003, 04:26 PM

hey:

Search on freshmeat for 'autopkg'. It's pretty sweet, and can do what you're looking for. It functions almost like apt, but I don't think it handles dependencies.

-Charlie

65_289 · 01-29-2003, 05:06 PM

Sweet. That looks like just the thing. It looks like I can set it to basically automatically upgrade my system at whatever interval I choose. I'm guessing I could just write a script to run it, and put it to run under cron, right?