slackpkg and firefox

conraid · 04-28-2016, 02:04 AM

Yesterday, with mozilla-firefox-45.1.0esr-x86_64-1.txz, and today, with mozilla-firefox-45.1.0esr-x86_64-2.txz, slackpkg not recognize mozilla-firefox and therefore does not propose it for the upgrade or installation.

It's happened to others?

Didier Spaier · 04-28-2016, 02:35 AM

Two possible causes:

You forgot to run slackpkg update.
The mirror you use has not been updated yet. If that is the case, be patient or use another mirror.

conraid · 04-28-2016, 03:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

Two possible causes:

You forgot to run slackpkg update.
The mirror you use has not been updated yet. If that is the case, be patient or use another mirror.

No.I did run slackpkg update, in fact slackpkg showed me just yptools and xfce4-settings.
I have updated Firefox with upgradepkg, normally.

Didier Spaier · 04-28-2016, 03:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by conraid

No.I did run slackpkg update, in fact slackpkg showed me just yptools and xfce4-settings.

Then I would check that:

The mirror you use does include mozilla-firefox (it is unlikely but not impossible that it be missing).
mozilla-firefox be not in /etc/slackpkg/blacklist.

conraid · 04-28-2016, 03:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

Then I would check that:

The mirror you use does include mozilla-firefox (it is unlikely but not impossible that it be missing).
mozilla-firefox be not in /etc/slackpkg/blacklist.

I build my own mirror with rsync from osuosl.org, and firefox there is, in fact, then it upgrades normally with upgradepkg from mirror directory.

Also "serch" does not find it:

Code:

root@blankstar:/etc# slackpkg search mozilla

Looking for mozilla in package list. Please wait... DONE

The list below shows all packages with name matching "mozilla".

[ installed ] - mozilla-nss-3.23-x86_64-1
[ installed ] - mozilla-thunderbird-45.0-x86_64-1

You can search specific files using "slackpkg file-search file".

root@blankstar:/etc# slackpkg search firefox

Looking for firefox in package list. Please wait... DONE

No package name matches the pattern.

root@blankstar:/etc# slackpkg search mozilla-firefox

Looking for mozilla-firefox in package list. Please wait... DONE

No package name matches the pattern.

And the blacklist file is the default, I have not changed it.

phenixia2003 · 04-28-2016, 03:53 AM

Hello,

Can you post the output of commands below :

Code:

$ ls /var/log/packages/mozilla-*

$ grep " mozilla-firefox " /var/lib/slackpkg/pkglist

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conraid · 04-28-2016, 04:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phenixia2003

Hello,

Can you post the output of commands below :

Code:

$ ls /var/log/packages/mozilla-*

$ grep " mozilla-firefox " /var/lib/slackpkg/pkglist

Code:

root@blankstar:/# ls /var/log/packages/mozilla-*  
/var/log/packages/mozilla-firefox-45.1.0esr-x86_64-2  /var/log/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-45.0-x86_64-1
/var/log/packages/mozilla-nss-3.23-x86_64-1
root@blankstar:/# grep " mozilla-firefox " /var/lib/slackpkg/pkglist
slackware64 mozilla-firefox 45.1.0esr x86_64 2 mozilla-firefox-45.1.0esr-x86_64-2 ./slackware64/xap txz

phenixia2003 · 04-28-2016, 06:49 AM

Hello,

Quote:

Originally Posted by conraid

Code:

root@blankstar:/# ls /var/log/packages/mozilla-*  
/var/log/packages/mozilla-firefox-45.1.0esr-x86_64-2  /var/log/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-45.0-x86_64-1
/var/log/packages/mozilla-nss-3.23-x86_64-1
root@blankstar:/# grep " mozilla-firefox " /var/lib/slackpkg/pkglist
slackware64 mozilla-firefox 45.1.0esr x86_64 2 mozilla-firefox-45.1.0esr-x86_64-2 ./slackware64/xap txz

Weird. mozilla-firefox is in slackpkg database, so, slackpkg should find it. What version of slackpkg is installed ?

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conraid · 04-28-2016, 07:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phenixia2003

Weird. mozilla-firefox is in slackpkg database, so, slackpkg should find it.

I know it's weird, for this I posted the "problem". Maybe it can be a bug or not.
If it's just a problem of my installation, no problem, I use safely upgradepkg.

Quote:

What version of slackpkg is installed ?

Code:

# ls /var/log/packages/slackpkg*
/var/log/packages/slackpkg-2.82.0-noarch-16

phenixia2003 · 04-28-2016, 07:23 AM

Hello,

That's weird because I identified a bug in slackpkg+/devel which looks like the issue you encounter, however, I can't reproduce it with stock slackpkg unless I add "firefox" in /etc/slackpkg/blacklist :

Code:

$ ls /var/log/packages/slackpkg-*
/var/log/packages/slackpkg-2.82.0-noarch-16

$ slackpkg search firefox
Looking for firefox in package list. Please wait... DONE

The list below shows all packages with name matching "firefox".

[ installed ] - mozilla-firefox-45.1.0esr-x86_64-2

You can search specific files using "slackpkg file-search file".

$ echo "firefox" >> /etc/slackpkg/blacklist

$ slackpkg search firefox

Looking for firefox in package list. Please wait... DONE

No package name matches the pattern.

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Gordie · 04-28-2016, 08:14 AM

I was having similar problems with slackpkg of late. The changelog showed upgrades but slackpkg didn't see them or apply them. I would have to go and download the updates one at a time after running slackpkg and use upgradepkg to make the necessary changes to my system.

I tried removepkg and then installpkg to reinstall slackpkg and it didn't remove the problem.

Next I used ark to expand slackpkg-2.82.0-noarch-16.tgz so I could see every last bit of it and then went and picked out every one of those bits and deleted them. When it was all gone I installed it again and set it up just like I did way back when (it worked in those days).

Now it seems to work for me again

enine · 04-28-2016, 08:22 AM

I've ran into similar. My issue is Slackpkg doesn't find some of the standard Slackware packages at all. I'll have to grab my list when I get home for a couple examples. But I used the arm minirootfs and needed to add such things as apache, mariadb, etc. There are a couple dependency packages that I can use the web page package browser and get the package name but slackpkg install doesn't find them. I have to manually download and installpkg.

Gordie · 04-28-2016, 12:20 PM

Well, slackpkg just worked on today's updates. Looks like a fresh start fixed whatever ailed it

mralk3 · 04-28-2016, 10:45 PM

I've had similar problems in the past. What I did was remove the package(s) in question, with removepkg, and then reinstall the package with 'slackpkg install <package>". I forget what package it was that was duplicated, but I came to the conclusion that the slackpkg database became confused due to package name. removepkg removed both of the duplicates and everything was ready to go again. I am not sure though if this is a different issue than what I experienced or if it was due to my novice skills with Slackware. I vaguely remember what happened due to the fact that it was about a year ago I ran into this issue.

phenixia2003 · 04-29-2016, 07:56 AM

Hello,

Quote:

Originally Posted by conraid

Also "serch" does not find it:

Code:

root@blankstar:/etc# slackpkg search mozilla

Looking for mozilla in package list. Please wait... DONE

The list below shows all packages with name matching "mozilla".

[ installed ] - mozilla-nss-3.23-x86_64-1
[ installed ] - mozilla-thunderbird-45.0-x86_64-1

You can search specific files using "slackpkg file-search file".

root@blankstar:/etc# slackpkg search firefox

Looking for firefox in package list. Please wait... DONE

No package name matches the pattern.

root@blankstar:/etc# slackpkg search mozilla-firefox

Looking for mozilla-firefox in package list. Please wait... DONE

No package name matches the pattern.

Can you post the output of commands below :

Code:

$ grep -vE "(^#|^[[:blank:]]*$)" /etc/slackpkg/blacklist

Code:

$ PRIORITY=( $(grep "^PRIORITY" /etc/slackpkg/slackpkg.conf | cut -f2- -d"(" | cut -f1 -d")" | sed "s/%PKGMAIN/slackware64/") )

$ echo ${PRIORITY[*]}

Code:

$ PATTERN=firefox

$ for i in ${PRIORITY[@]} ; do grep "^${i}.*${PATTERN}" /var/lib/slackpkg/pkglist | cut -f6 -d" " ; done

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