I have moved from using -stable to -current as my everyday OS. I thought I would give sbopkg a try at the same time, to learn something new. I have not used sbopkg before, choosing to install packages from slackbuilds.org myself on my old -stable.

I have installed sbopkg and configured the repository in /etc/sbopkg/sbopkg.conf as instructed here: https://github.com/Ponce/slackbuilds...ry-with-sbopkg

I have installed latex2html using sbopkg and everything seems fine.

I use slackpkg to track updates in -current and allow slackpkg to install kernel upgrades.

I have uncommented in /etc/slackpkg/blacklist.

sbopkg appears as in /var/log/packages.

Will slackpkg try to remove or 'clean up' sbopkg if I leave things as they are? I run
to keep up with the -current changelog.

As I have written at the start of this post, both -current and sbopkg are new to me, so any help or advice for either would be appreciated.

Yes, as well as any packages you've built and installed using slackbuilds from ponce's repo since those have the format:

So this:

won't help.

I've blacklisted them like this:

I'm not sure if mine is the best syntax to use but it does work and I haven't experienced any problems yet (that I know of).

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Thank you Mechanikx. I have edited blacklist as in your example.

I have installed remmina and its dependencies and can see the packages ending in 1ponce. I guess _wsr is willy sudiarto raharjo?

You're welcome. The packages end with [num]ponce. Just so you know the number could be 1, 2, 3, etc, in terms of any script revisions.

Yes, that's correct.

Sorry, I missed that you're not running 'slackpkg clean-system' as part of your update process. If you don't run that command then slackpkg won't try to remove any packages that Pat has removed and has marked 'Removed' in the changelog or any 3rd party packages. So, you'll need to run 'slackpkg clean-system' if you want slackpkg to remove those packages and also ensure all 3rd party packages you wish to keep on your system are blacklisted.

So the process would be:

I have just run
and sbopkg and remmina and its dependencies are still installed.

So I'll mark that as solved. Thanks again Mechanikx, you have been really helpful.

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If you are using -current, then i would suggest you to use this version: https://sbopkg.org/test/sbopkg-0.38.2-noarch-1_wsr.tgz
change it to master (instead of 15.0) in sbopkg.conf and you are set to go
it has all the new features that will be in the future (final) 0.38.2

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Thank you willysr. I have to say, ss a new Slackware user I have found the Slackware community very helpful, informed and friendly.

I will switch over to your suggested version of sbopkg .

I do have a couple of questions though:

1) Do I remove the old/existing sbopkg and will completely remove the version of sbopkg I have? As in completely remove the existing sbopkg.conf, or will I need to remove this or clean up anything myself?

2) Is this the only change I need to make to the new sbopkg.conf?:

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1. You can just simply upgradepkg sbopkg-0.38.2-noarch-1_wsr.tgz
2. You need to move the .new file first to sbopkg.conf and then change 15.0 -> master

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