Best way to up-to-date slackware and install third party software?

hitest · 02-03-2010, 09:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zbreaker

Another hearty endorsement for:

Keeping up with the changelogs and using slackpkg.
SlackBuilds & sbopkg.
AlienBob and Robby Workman's repositories.
Sourcecode and src2pkg if needed.

Meets my needs completely...your milage may vary.

Yep. The only third party applications that I trust are the ones I build using the build scripts from slackbuilds.org. The only pre-built packages that I use and trust are the ones created by Robby Workman and Eric Hameleers.

brianL · 02-03-2010, 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zbreaker

Another hearty endorsement for:

Keeping up with the changelogs and using slackpkg.
SlackBuilds & sbopkg.
AlienBob and Robby Workman's repositories.
Sourcecode and src2pkg if needed.

Meets my needs completely...your milage may vary.

Agree 100%.

onebuck · 02-03-2010, 05:42 PM

Hi,

I would add that a Slackware user should subscribe to the Slackware Linux Security list by contacting majordomo@slackware.com;

Quote:

excerpt from Slackware Linux Project Mailing Lists

We have several mailing lists, check the instructions for how to subscribe.

To subscribe to a mailing list, email:

majordomo@slackware.com.

with the phrase "subscribe [name of list]" in the body of the email. The list choices are described below (use one the names below for the name of the list).

slackware-announce <- name of list

The slackware-announce mailing list is for announcements of new versions, major updates and other general information. It is a low traffic, moderated list.

slackware-security <- name of list

The slackware-security mailing list is for announcements relating to security issues. Any exploits or other vulnerabilities pertaining to Slackware will get posted to this list.

jsmith6 · 02-04-2010, 01:44 AM

I use a simple lftp script to update Slack. Before that, I have been using a hacker-ish complex Bash script that didn't really live up to the efficiency of how lftp does mirroring.

file slackupdate.sh:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

mkdir 13.0
echo ---

lftp -f slack.lftp

# This is how you can do something with a one-liner but I require serveral
# operations that cannot be performed in one line. At least that's what I think.
# lftp -c open -e "mput *" username:paddword@hostname

exit 0;

file: slack.lftp

Code:

open slackware.oregonstate.edu
mirror -e ftp://slackware.oregonstate.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-13.0/patches/packages ./13.0
quit