Hi all,

slackpkg upgrade for a couple of packages completed with a warning along the lines of the below:
However it was actually installed.

I manually uninstalled it (but may have run it first), and then reinstalled with slackpkg. No complaints this time.

So my main questions is:
Is my system now trustworthy, since a doInst.sh belonging to an incorrect (by error or design) package was run ?

Secondly, why did slackpkg install something on which it reported an incorrect md5sum?

Another detail - somewhere prior to the md5sum I had killed slackpkg mid-download, then ran it again later. Could this be a cause of the incorrect md5sum, or confused slackpkg?

thanks,
graham.

If slackpkg really did that I would consider it a bug

I'll see if I can reproduce.

I can reproduce:
1 - install mozilla-firefox from the 14.1 iso (ie. an old version)
2 - set slackpkg mirror to ftp://mirrors...
3 - slackpkg update
4 - slackpkg upgrade-all (select firefox)
5 - kill it part way through.
6 - change the mirror to http://mirrors...
7 - slackpkg upgrade-all (select firefox)

Upgrade happens, with md5sum warning afterwards.

Edit: actually it seems that steps 2 & 6 aren't necessary (that's just the process I originally followed).

That looks silly. Why would slackpkg check md5 if it is not going to matter? I mean, why check if it is going to install it anyways?

I had the same issue when I upgraded one machine from 14.0 to 14.1 using slackpkg with a WIFI connection. The connection was not quite good and from time to time I lost it. When the connection was lost, the package currently being downloaded was not saved on the PC and slackpkg continued to the next file to be downloaded (either a package or an asc signature file).

[off-topic]by default, slackpkg downloads first all the packages selected before installing them, this can be changed by setting DOWNLOAD_ALL=off in /etc/slackpkg/slackpkg.conf[/off-topic]

After installing the packages that were successfully downloaded, slackpkg tried to download again the packages whose download failed the first time. During the second attempt, some packages were successfully installed and others failed again.

After this second trial, there was no third one and slackpkg reported the warning only once for packages that could be installed after the second download and twice for those packages when first and second attempts at download failed.

An example: let's say, I want to download 3 packages: aaaa, bbbb, cccc

During the first download pass of slackpkg:

aaaa.txz => donwload OK
aaaa.txz.asc => download OK
bbbb.txz => download OK
bbbb.txz.asc => download NOT OK
cccc.txz => download NOT OK
ccc.txz.asc = > download NOT OK

During the installation pass of slackpkg:

aaaa.txz => installed
bbbb.txz => not installed because of download error of asc signature file
cccc.txz => not installed because of download error

Then slackpkg tries again to download and install bbbb and cccc:

bbbb.txz => download OK
bbbb.txz.asc => download NOT OK
cccc.txz => download OK
ccc.txz.asc = > download OK

then slackpkg installs cccc.txz but not bbbb.txz and reports the following warnings
To sum it up. If the package appears only one time, it's OK the package was properly installed (during the second try). But if the package appears twice in the report, it was not installed.

At least that's my own experience

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By default, there is a md5sum check. So it matters. From /etc/slackpkg/slackpkg.conf:

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Thank you, I had the same problem and your post resolved it. Apparently it's a problem of ignorance alone. p.s. it's always good to hear people describe Slackware as if it's a mystical entity.

After selecting a mirror, run this:
Only needs to be done once, unless you change mirrors.
Then: