opinion: swaret or slapt-get?

mpelts · 10-15-2004, 03:17 PM

Looking for opinions between swaret and slapt-get.

Which do you use?

Have you switched from one to the other? Why?

Thanks,
Mk.

Cedrik · 10-15-2004, 03:28 PM

I use swaret for my part, but when it asks me to download an updated package, I think twice before press the enter button to accept default (yes)

shilo · 10-15-2004, 03:40 PM

Same as Cedrik.

WMD · 10-15-2004, 03:56 PM

To be honest I've never used Slapt-get...but Swaret was very easy to figure out and use.

predator.hawk · 10-15-2004, 04:22 PM

i like slapt-get, it doesn't try to downgrade GTK after upgrading it to 2.4.10........

Big Al · 10-16-2004, 10:12 PM

I've never used Slapt-get. I WAS happy with swaret, but my latest upgrade borked KDE! Apparently it missed a library and I had to grab it manually from slackware.com. Does stuff like that happen with slapt-get?

Franklin · 10-17-2004, 10:48 AM

swaret upgrades what is already on your system. It will not install a new or re-named package unless you tell it to and the only way to know that is to read the change logs.

swaret --update This updates the database comparing what is already installed to what is new

swaret --upgrade -a This upgrades all "installed" packages that have an upgrade available

If after reading the change log, there is a an addition that will be new to the system the following needs to be done.

swaret --get foo
swaret --install foo

swaret is not the problem. The problem is that people don't realize that it has limitations that require an administrator's intervention.
Renamed packages cause the same problem by the way.

note: I don't use swaret, but I think I'm pretty close on the commands - if I'm off please correct

HTH

h1tman · 10-17-2004, 01:23 PM

ya you got it

nick_th_fury · 10-17-2004, 02:09 PM

I have never used slapt-get. I do use swaret from time to time.
It's automation makes trivial things less time consuming.
I find on the major stuff it usually messes up.

It breaks important things. However, it's nothing that can't easily be fixed if you know how.
If you don't know already howto do it manually, learn before relying on swaret.

Azmeen · 10-17-2004, 09:42 PM

Although personally I use swaret, but honestly, any difference between the two tools are negligible.

And also, if used correctly... neither of them will give you any major problems. Common problems faced by using these tools are usually self inflicted anyway.

eg. Updating libs/apps that are in use. Failure to migrate to updated config files , etc. etc.

One useful tip: Avoid updating within X, especially when there are major updates to core libs... and a reboot after that might not hurt either.