How does one install packages from testing using slackpkg or is that possible?

Like always, use "installpkg" for installing a new package, or "upgradepkg" to upgrade to a newer version of a package that you already had installed.
And remember that slackpkg is of course a convenience, but you should learn how to use the basic Slackware pkgtools!

Eric

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I know how to install a package I have all ready downloaded to my system. What I was trying to do was something like this;

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You could change the order of the values in the PRIORITY array in slackpkg.conf, e.g. write:
then do a 'slackpkg upgrade kernel'

But beware then that this order will be used for "slackpkg upgrade-all" as well, e.g. as of now it will propose you to replace mesa-7.9.2 with mesa-7.10.1.

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Thanks that worked? I'll just have to remember to change things back and blacklist kernel updates after upgrading kernels for now.

I hope I don't get bashed for reopening an old thread but I hate duplication, so here's how it goes: I know that if I want to install packages from /testing I should change the order of the values in the PRIORITY array in slackpkg.conf, however I still expect slackpkg to discriminate between the different versions of the same package. I'll give you an example. At the moment of writing the only package in slackware64-current/testing is mozilla-firefox-8.0b2.

I have this line in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors:
ftp://slackware.org.uk/slackware/slackware64-current/
and this mirror is updated (not all the UK based are).

So I type:
Slackpkg correctly picks up only firefox but gives the wrong version for download (mozilla-firefox-7.0.1).
This is not consistent. If slackpkg can understand there's only one package available why does it revert to the older version? Is this a bug or intended behaviour?
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