Till this time I only was using swaret, but now I want to try other.

One thing:

I have added about 10 repositories to swaret.conf , but now I want to update my slack to current WITHOUT using 3rd party packages.

If I launch 'swaret --upgrade -a' swaret updates also from 3rd party repos.

The unique way to avoid this is to comment repos'es in the conf, clear the var/swaret dir, then upgrade all.

OR

I can mantain swaret fully updated to install/update packages 'by hand' when I need something particular, and I can use slackpkg to mantain my slack updated to current

What do you think about?

Now I try also slapt-get to see how it works .. maybe I'll post some opinion about

if you already have all the packages, you may as well use installpkg instead of swaret.

Barx, I have split off your question and the answer into it's own thread. In future, could you just start a new thread to ask your question, rather than change the direction of an existing one. Thanks.

I'm sorry .. I was thinking this can argument can be interesting in the other thread ...

no problem


@busbarn

I want to use a package manager to upgrade to current without downloading by hand every package (or all in a time via FTP).
If I 'refresh' my slack every 2 weeks I can't download every time 2 cd of (probably useless) packages ..

put some of the slackware mirrors as REPOS_ROOT ...

example "Fu-Berlin" mirror:
REPOS_ROOT=FuBerlin%ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/linux/mi...ckware-current

and comment out all other REPOS_ROOT options ... and everything works perfectly OK ...

later, when you need some extra pacakges which are not included in slackware, just uncomment the other REPOS ....

I know, it's not the prettiest solution, but swaret is not apt ... and it works for me.

M.