Upgrading Slackware to the next version: questions and remarks

NoStressHQ · 02-09-2016, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by kikinovak

Since I'm working in three different languages on a daily basis, the swiss french keyboard comes in very handy. The english QWERTY keyboard is unusable for german or french special characters.

Yes there's a difference between writing to "people" and writing to "machines"... Ideally it would be cool if it was easy to switch from one layout to the other instantly...

I know how to do it on windows, but not at all on Linux.

Ellendhel · 02-09-2016, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by kikinovak

Since I'm working in three different languages on a daily basis, the swiss french keyboard comes in very handy. The english QWERTY keyboard is unusable for german or french special characters.

For my part I was speaking only for settings for the root account. For regular end-user work, yes localization is useful and needed. I know that KDE allows changes for keyboard layout pretty easily, at least between English/American and French (details in my blog). I have never looked for a console-based solution, or for other languages, but it may be possible.

kikinovak · 02-09-2016, 11:26 AM

Well, you either have 'setxkbmap -layout ch -variant fr' in a graphical environment (as non-root user), or 'loadkeys fr_CH-latin1' in the console. Besides that, I'm using the xfce4-xkb-plugin to switch between german and swiss-french keyboard layout.

kikinovak · 02-09-2016, 11:28 AM

Another question related to a "hot" system upgrade comes to my mind. Let's say I do that on a software RAID 1 or RAID 5 installation. What are the possible caveats?

Drakeo · 02-09-2016, 11:31 AM

First thing you read is this. http://mirrors1.kernel.org/slackware...nt/UPGRADE.TXT
and if you have done your home work most of your older programs you can start to rebuild or migrate.
this has helped me so many times http://mirrors1.kernel.org/slackware..._AND_HINTS.TXT
KISS

a4z · 02-09-2016, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by kikinovak

Since I'm working in three different languages on a daily basis, the swiss french keyboard comes in very handy. The english QWERTY keyboard is unusable for german or french special characters.

also 3 languages, us en international altGR

gives me äåéüúíóöáßøñ¿̧̇

at the same time and the rest of the layout is pretty english what is nice for several editors and apps dealing with shortcuts.
I find everything else pretty useless.
(ever tried firefox siwtch tabgroup Ctr + ` on a german keyborad?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_...-International

NoStressHQ · 02-09-2016, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by a4z

also 3 languages, us en international altGR

gives me äåéüúíóöáßøñ¿̧̇

at the same time and the rest of the layout is pretty english what is nice for several editors and apps dealing with shortcuts.
I find everything else pretty useless.
(ever tried firefox siwtch tabgroup Ctr + ` on a german keyborad?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_...-International

Thanks, years have passed and I had almost forgot about US intl...

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I'm too old for this shit...

Cheers.

kikinovak · 02-09-2016, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Drakeo

First thing you read is this. http://mirrors1.kernel.org/slackware...nt/UPGRADE.TXT
and if you have done your home work most of your older programs you can start to rebuild or migrate.
this has helped me so many times http://mirrors1.kernel.org/slackware..._AND_HINTS.TXT
KISS

Read the first post of this thread.

v8dave · 02-09-2016, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Drakeo

First thing you read is this. http://mirrors1.kernel.org/slackware...nt/UPGRADE.TXT
and if you have done your home work most of your older programs you can start to rebuild or migrate.
this has helped me so many times http://mirrors1.kernel.org/slackware..._AND_HINTS.TXT
KISS

As well as reading the first post you should have checked your links !
That upgrade document is for going from 14.0 to 14.1

Richard Cranium · 02-09-2016, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by kikinovak

Another question related to a "hot" system upgrade comes to my mind. Let's say I do that on a software RAID 1 or RAID 5 installation. What are the possible caveats?

Make sure that your initrd either doesn't have a /etc/mdadm.conf or the one that is there matches new device names (assuming that you simply don't use UUIDs to define your raid arrays).

I run RAID-1 all over the place and haven't had any issues with hot upgrades due to RAID.

kikinovak · 02-10-2016, 03:30 AM

I spent a rainy afternoon experimenting with Vimdiff, and I guess this is exactly the tool I was looking for. I've written a little Slackware-specific blog article about it.

BratPit · 02-10-2016, 09:40 AM

for X and non vimer-s is meld .