Ive been running slack on and off for about 2 months now and just tried swaret for the first time today. I cant remember which version, but its the latest stable.
All I can say is that the automatic dependancy check is awsome.
And to think I was going to switch to debian just so I could run apt-get
LOL

Hmmm, gonna have to give it a try!

I agree. Swaret is excellent. Just what slack needs.

In case anyone wants to give it a try, just check the mirrors (choose any other than slack's main ftp. its too slow) and few other things in its config file, run
swaret --update
swaret --upgrade

Didn't know it existed until I read about it on here today, tried it and it did the one job that was niggling me - autoupdating slackware packages.

Very good, almost as good as windows update

gswaret is even better!

From someone who has been using swaret for a while now, be careful to what you upgrade: Upgrading everything is not necessary a good thing and could lead to some unpleasant surprise:I upgraded lilo (to 2.25 I think) a few weeks ago and the system refused to boot (error 21 21 ...) Reverting to the previously installed lilo put everything in order.
I would suggest to add lilo to swaret.exclude.
This is just me of course, but it could happen to other people!

It is a great tool, but requires a mimimum of care!

regards.

I suppose that all package management is still done by editing text files and it won't display a list of packages that are available for download, right? I would like to be able to see a list of what's available then uncheck or check what I need or don't need. Is that what gswaret will do?

Thanks.

Hows does swaret integrate with dropline?
I understand that quite a few apps are already in dropline and upgradable from it. How do they work together if they do?
I am planning on installing a new slack with gnome this time (I want to try a new UI on my slack box) and wonder if swaret will worm happily with dropline and if they are any advantages/inconvenients...

Swaret already shows you a list of available upgrades if you start 'swaret --upgrade' and after that will ask you whether you want to upgrade or not for each item in the list.

I have not seen gswaret yet, though. I'll try it later. BTW, is there a kswaret? :-)

next step: make it graphical and look nice?

Looks like gswaret is good enough for me. It works just like pkgtool. Thanks for pointing out gswaret.

i think i wanna make swaret graphical. thats gonna be a personal prokect

I had a personal prokect once, but I didn't talk about it in public.

I'm considering taking another look at Slackware now that the two main problems that made me switch away from it (inability to get XFS and the nForce drivers working along with the lack of decent package management/upgrade tools) have seemingly been solved but I have one question: just how current is slackware-current? I've been spoilt by the range of bleeding edge packages available in Gentoo's Portage system but how close to this bleeding edge are the packages in slackware-current and are there are range of user-maintained "swaret repositories" containing slackpacks (along with whatever swaret needs on the server side) for packages that aren't generally included in Slackware or slackware-current or doesn't swaret work that way?

LSD, fraid i don't know. I haven't heard of any swaret repositories tho. Thought people might be interested that an apt for slack is in progress: http://sourceforge.net/projects/apt-slack/ . Anyway, im off to give gswaret a try. Cheers for that.

Swaret repositories? I think almost every Slackware mirror is a repository for Swaret.