Updating slackware64-current

bakunin · 09-13-2012, 03:46 PM

How can I update slackware64-current?

Habitual · 09-13-2012, 03:55 PM

http://slackware.mirrors.pair.com/sl...nt/UPGRADE.TXT

bakunin · 09-13-2012, 04:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Habitual

http://slackware.mirrors.pair.com/sl...nt/UPGRADE.TXT

I thought upgrade and update are different. Also Im already using slackware 14 rc4.

Woodsman · 09-13-2012, 04:13 PM

A manual way to update Current is to read the change log and use upgradepkg and installpkg as appropriate.

A common way to automate the process is to use slackpkg. First edit /etc/slackpkg/mirrors to select a mirror. A local hard drive "mirror" is possible too. Then, as root, run slackpkg in this order:

slackpkg update
slackpkg install-new
slackpkg clean-system (optional)
slackpkg upgrade-all

bakunin · 09-13-2012, 04:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Woodsman

A manual way to update Current is to read the change log and use upgradepkg and installpkg as appropriate.

A common way to automate the process is to use slackpkg. First edit /etc/slackpkg/mirrors to select a mirror. A local hard drive "mirror" is possible too. Then, as root, run slackpkg in this order:

slackpkg update
slackpkg install-new
slackpkg clean-system (optional)
slackpkg upgrade-all

Thanks Woodsman. It`s the thing which I`m exactly searching for.

Celyr · 09-13-2012, 04:28 PM

In my experience that order may lead to problems, it's better to upgrade-all before clean-system

bakunin · 09-13-2012, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Celyr

In my experience that order may lead to problems, it's better to upgrade-all before clean-system

Why?

BroX · 09-14-2012, 06:54 AM

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Originally Posted by bakunin

Why?

'clean-system' could remove an essential package that is needed to install the upgraded version (wget for example).

onebuck · 09-15-2012, 01:06 PM

Hi,

This is what 'man slackpkg' states;

Quote:

clean-system
This action removes all of the packages that don't belong to a standard Slackware installation. With this
option, you can clean up your system, removing third-party packages as well as any packages that were removed
from the official Slackware package set.
If you have some third party (or custom built) packages that you would like to keep, you can temporarily add
them to the list of blacklisted packages before you run the 'clean-system' action.

'wget' is part of the standard packages in Slackware;

Quote:

/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/

wget-1.14-x86_64-1.txz

EDIT: Also, this is what 'man slackpkg' recommends;

Quote:

Slackpkg can be used to upgrade the whole distribution.
The usual way is to do:

# slackpkg update
# slackpkg install-new
# slackpkg upgrade-all
# slackpkg clean-system

BroX · 09-15-2012, 02:19 PM

Oops, my bad. Thanks for correcting that Gary.