Slackpkg-15.0
 

Did the upgrade today including the new slackpkg-15.0 and have some questions about how the new slackpkg works. Perhaps I'm a bit dense but the following things make no sense to me -

1) With the previous version I would run slackpkg update and it would cycle thru the sources (I have slackpkg+ installed too) checking for updates. If I ran slackpkg update again it would check and then stop and tell me that there are no new packages and ask do I want to download the package list again. With the new version it simply runs thru the whole list again ignoring the fact that there were no changes since the previous check.

2) I read about the new blacklist syntax and uncommented the lines pertaining to kernel updates since I always build the packages myself. That said, when I run slackpkg upgrade-all it still offers to install kernel-huge-5.10.14-x86_64-1.txz. Is that supposed to happen?

3) I had several SBo packages blacklisted and with the old slackpkg that worked fine. With the new version it still offers to update them even though I have changed the syntax as far as I understand it.

Thanks for un-confusing this old brain.

Cleared up item 2. Pkgtool claimed that kernel-huge-5.10.1 was installed even though it wasn't. Used removepkg on it and kernel-huge-5.10.14 is no longer offered when I run "slackpkg upgrade-all". Am tempted at this point to remove slackpkg and installed pkg lists in /var/log and attempt to start over BUT I don't want leave myself marooned with no ability to install packages again.

All points are related to the use of slackpkg+ which is not fully compatible with slackpkg-15 as reported in this thread slackpkg+ 1.8

If you disable use of slackpkg+ by making the following change in /etc/slackpkg/slackpkgplus.conf:
you'd notice that slackpkg blacklist works as advertised.

I have another observation: the default uncommented mirror line in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors.new (copied from /usr/doc/slackpkg-15.0/mirrors-x86*.sample) uses a 14.2 mirror instead of the -current one.

That did the trick gegechris99. Thanks for pointing that out. Everything works as advertised now.

Yes, I noticed the default uncommented line in mirrors and fixed that straight away Petri.

I did a clean install today using the Feb. 8th Slackware64-current ISO (thank you, Eric!). I was surprised that a 14.2 mirror was uncommented when I ran slackpkg update gpg. Once I commented out the 14.2 mirror and added my usual slackware64-current mirror all worked as expected.

Even with SLACKPKGPLUS=off, slackpkg-15 doesn't honor the blacklist when multiple kernel packages are installed on my system

The behavior is curious
The blacklist seems to work on a slackpkg search
But not on a slackpkg install or upgrade-all


EDIT : sorry, my slackpkgplus was "on"

to fix slackpkg+ blacklist, or report bugs please:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...2/#post6217862
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...1/#post6217871

So for those of us on multilib: update glibc, update slackpkg, update aaa_libraries, then everything else? (Assuming since slackpkg+ isn't working with slackpkg 15 that everything will be done manually?)

if your problem is slackpkg+ do not post here.
otherwise I don't understand the question.

If you want multilib without slackpkg+ then upgrade the system with
slackpkg install-new
slackpkg upgrade-all
slackpkg clean-system
then read official instructions
https://slackware.nl/people/alien/multilib/README