LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] slackpkg+ showing weird list of upgrades

hi all,

I tried to upgrade my Slackware 14.1 as usual using slackpkg+. As usual I invoked

Code:

slackpkg update

slackpkg update gpg

slackpkg upgrade-all

but all I got is a very weird list of upgrades. Some packages don't even have names. It looks like a ncurses glitch or something (as in the attached picture). I have no idea what happened. I tried to delete

Code:

/var/lib/slackpkg/pkglist

and

Code:

/var/lib/slackpkg/ChangeLog.txt

but this didn't help. Any suggestions?

This is my slackpkgplus.conf

Code:

# Configuration for slackpkg+. See /usr/doc/slackpkg+-*/README for more details



# Enable (on) / Disable (off) slackpkg+

SLACKPKGPLUS=on



# set to '0' to never show the download progress bar

# set to '1' to show the bar only in download packages (default)

# set to '2' to always show the download bar

# set to '3' for a debug mode

VERBOSE=1



# By default slackpkg+ deny to install 32bit packages.

#

# Set this flag to 'on' allow slackpkg+ to install 32bit packages on a 64bit slackware 

# installation (possibly unsafe). Please, do not install both 32 and 64bit of the same 

# package to avoid problems, and NEVER upgrade existant 64bit packages with relative 32bit package.

# Do not forget to install the multilibs.

ALLOW32BIT=off



# Enable (1) / Disable (0) the official slackpkg blacklist. May be useful to temporarily skip

# the slackware blacklist. You can also override it from command line:

# 'USEBL=0 slackpkg upgrade-all'

USEBL=1



# Add custom option to 'wget'.

# You can solve the repository indisponibility issue by set a timeout here

WGETOPTS="--timeout=20 --tries=2"



# If you want replace wget with another downloader search DOWNLOADCMD in documentation

# at /usr/doc/slackpkg+-*/README

#DOWNLOADCMD="wget -O"



# Use the cache for metadata files (CHECKSUMS.md5,...). Enable it (on) to speedup the slackpkg update

# process by downloading just new files (see README). Disabled by default (off)

CACHEUPDATE=off



# You can download-only by setting DOWNLOADONLY to 'on'. You may (you should) also use it in commandline

# for example: "DOWNLOADONLY=on slackpkg upgrade-all". Useful for large upgrades.

#DOWNLOADONLY=off



# Enable (on) / Disable (off) notification events (see notifymsg.conf)

#ENABLENOTIFY=off



# Enable (on) / Disable (off) the greylist feature. See /etc/slackpkg/greylist

GREYLIST=on



# Defines if commands 'search' and 'file-search' are case-sensitive (on) or not (off). Default to "on"

SENSITIVE_SEARCH=on



# Select the show order in dialogbox. Available "package" "repository" "tag" "path" "arch"

SHOWORDER=package



# If two or more repositories contains some same packages, you can specify

# from which repository you prefer to search it.

# The syntax is "<repository_name>:<package_name>"

# Accepts regular expressions. To give priority to an entire repository use "<repository_name>"



# Examples:

#PKGS_PRIORITY=( restricted:vlc )

# OR

#PKGS_PRIORITY=( myrepo )

# 

# if you have two reporitories to give priority you must set both in the same line

#PKGS_PRIORITY=( myrepo restricted:vlc )

#

# if you want to install 'ktown' repository you must set it here

#PKGS_PRIORITY=( ktown )

# and DO NOT MISS to read special instruction on /usr/doc/slackpkg+-*/repositories.txt

#

# If you want a multilib system, uncomment the multilib repository and set:

PKGS_PRIORITY=( multilib slacky:darktable slacky:lensfun)

#

# (Use /usr/doc/slackpkg+-*/setupmultilib.sh to setup a multilib configuration)

#

# For both multilib and ktown set

#PKGS_PRIORITY=( multilib ktown )



# Otherwise you can try to upgrade a package from a repository that contains a package with the

# same tag of the already installed package. Tipically that means to upgrade a package from the

# same author of the already installed package.

# Note that this method may not works properly where two repositories contains a package with the

# same tag.

# Set TAG_PRIORITY to 'on' to enable this function

TAG_PRIORITY=off



# List repositories you want to use (defined below)

# remember to launch 'slackpkg update' if you modify that row.

REPOPLUS=( multilib slackpkgplus restricted alienbob slacky )





# Define mirrors (uncomment one or more mirror; remember to add it to REPOPLUS)

# GPG Note: after adding a repository, you must to run 'slackpkg update gpg'

#          some repositories as salixos or slackel, have a partial GPG support;

#          for that repositories you may need to run slackpkg with 'slackpkg -checkgpg=off ...'



# Slackware 14.1 - x86_64

MIRRORPLUS['multilib']=http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/multilib/14.1/

MIRRORPLUS['alienbob']=http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/sbrepos/14.1/x86_64/

MIRRORPLUS['restricted']=http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/restricted_sbrepos/14.1/x86_64/

MIRRORPLUS['slacky']=http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware64-14.1/



# use this to keep the slackpkg+ package updated

MIRRORPLUS['slackpkgplus']=http://slakfinder.org/slackpkg+/



# Slackware current - x86_64

#MIRRORPLUS['multilib']=http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/multilib/current/



# Local repository:

#MIRRORPLUS['alienbob']=file://repositories/alien/sbrepos/14.1/x86/

#

# Local packages (you do not need metadata nor 'slackpkg update' command):

#MIRRORPLUS['myrepo']=dir://repositories/mypackages/





#

# Supported Repositories (see /usr/doc/slackpkg+-* for details and notes):

#



#Supports GPG

#slackpkgplus:  http://slakfinder.org/slackpkg+/

#multilib:      http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/multilib/{13.37,14.0,14.1,current}/

#alienbob:      http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/sbrepos/{13.37,14.0,14.1,current}/{x86,x86_64}/

#ktown:        http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/{13.37,14.0,14.1,current}/{latest,testing}/{x86,x86_64}/

#restricted:    http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/restricted_sbrepos/{13.37,14.0,14.1,current}/{x86,x86_64}/

#slacky:        http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware{,64}-{13.37,14.0,14.1}/

#mleddesktop:  http://www.microlinux.fr/microlinux/desktop-{14.1,14.2}-{32,64}bit/

#mledextras:    http://www.microlinux.fr/microlinux/extras-{14.1,14.2}-{32,64}bit/

#mles:          http://www.microlinux.fr/microlinux/server-{14.0,14.1,14.2}-{32,64}bit/

#msb:          http://slackware.org.uk/msb/{14.0,14.1,testing}/{1.6,1.8,1.10,1.12}/{x86,x86_64}/

#slackers:      http://ponce.cc/slackers/repository/

#slacke18:      http://ngc891.blogdns.net/pub/slacke18/slackware{,64,arm}-14.1/

#studioware:    http://studioware.org/files/packages/slackware{,64}-{13.37,14.0,14.1}/

#slackonly:    http://packages.slackonly.com/pub/packages/{14.1,current}-{x86,x86_64}/

#rlworkman:    http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/{13.37,14.0,14.1,current}/

#slackel:      http://www.slackel.gr/repo/{i486,x86_64}/{current,kde5}/

#

#Does NOT support GPG

#salixos(*):    http://download.salixos.org/{i486,x86_64}/{13.37,14.0,14.1}/