How to upgrade from stable to current?
 

Hello

I am using Slackware 14.1, and i would like to upgrade to current. I read current/UPGRADE.TXT, but it is related to 14.0 to 14.1

Could you please give me some ideas?
thanks.

Go to your /etc/slackpkg/mirrors file and switch the 14.1 URL to one for -Current on the list, then run as such:

You will want to run clean-system to remove any old SBo packages so they can be rebuilt against the -Current system libraries as well as remove deprecated packages sent to /pasture, especially any kernel module packages. Make certain you comment out the SBo exclusion in /etc/slackpkg/blacklist before running this.

slackpkg update gpg, then slackpkg update, followed by the remaining commands in your list.

Any of the above will work, but you should consider that Slackware-current is not intended to be used in production.

Exactly! As a rule we will offer help and support for patched full installations of Slackware-stable. If you choose to run Slackware-current then you are expected to do some of your own trouble shooting if things go awry. In my experience Slackware-current is very stable, but, breakage does occur from time to time.

Thanks for the answers.

I just had some fun with slackpkg (I didn't do it right) and a bit of a retro moment using links and bash in a vertically segmented screen session. After some futzing around after a blind upgrade that broke X... slackpkg ended up segfaulting and I nuked my install from orbit and reinstalled from optical media.

Breaks do occur, but because -Current isn't a true rolling release, the breaks are fewer because there is some level of quality in -Current.

If you can make a shell script segfault you have a special kind of talent.