Slackpkg wants to downgrade me?

Manx_UK · 10-06-2006, 04:12 AM

Slackpkg 2.09, on Slackware 11.0:

After setting /etc/slackpkg/mirrors to a "current" repository and running slackpkg update, whenever i generate a package file list, any upgrades it finds are all downgrades. For instance, it will report that it will "upgrade" Firefox from 1.5.0.7 --> 1.5.0.6 ??

Anybody got any ideas as to whats going on?

TIA

cathectic · 10-06-2006, 04:26 AM

Possibly you are pointing slackpkg to an out of date mirror, since I've not had your problem with it wanting to downgrade packages?

Manx_UK · 10-06-2006, 04:47 AM

Well, the mirror file that slackpkg uses is from the 11.0 /extras release. I've tried 3-4 different mirrors, all with the same result.

vharishankar · 10-06-2006, 05:07 AM

You have only one mirror uncommented in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors right?

Just make sure all the old mirrors are commented out.

dunric · 10-06-2006, 05:09 AM

What output do you get by invoking

Code:

grep mozilla-firefox /etc/slackpkg/pkglist

?

Manx_UK · 10-06-2006, 09:55 AM

I get,

Code:

grep mozilla-firefox /etc/slackpkg/pkglist

./slackware/xap/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.7-i686-1.tgz

Also, Slackpkg seems to have built-in error checking on that /etc/slackpkg/mirrors file. If you don't select any mirror, it warns you and it won't start. Sames goes for if you uncomment out more than one.

dunric · 10-06-2006, 04:46 PM

It is a very, very strange behaviour because mentioned pkglist is used for all operations like upgrade, install, reinstall, download and blacklist. I guess slackpkg upgrade mozilla-firefox won't offer a downgrade.

As I did reread your question, you've spoken about package list generation - do you get it by the search command ? If you do, then I'd first try to remove filelist.gz, slackware-filelist.gz, extra-filelist.gz and pasture-filelist.gz - they will be generated again. Then select up-to-date mirror and invoke slackpkg update again and check if it did helped.

ciotog · 10-07-2006, 01:05 PM

Hmm... Could it be that Slackware is moving to i686? I noticed that Xine is also being built targeted for that platform...

But anyway, do any of the mirrors you tried using even have the 1.5.0.6 version?

Manx_UK · 10-08-2006, 09:39 PM

Here's some sample output from using the search function in slackpkg:

Code:

slackpkg search X | grep upgrade
[  upgrade  ] - aaa_base-11.0.0-noarch-2 --> aaa_base-11.0.0-noarch-1
[  upgrade  ] - etc-11.0-noarch-2 --> etc-5.1-noarch-13
[  upgrade  ] - glibc-solibs-2.3.6-i486-6 --> glibc-solibs-2.3.6-i486-5
[  upgrade  ] - kernel-modules-2.6.17.13-i486-1 --> kernel-modules-2.4.33.3-i486-1
[  upgrade  ] - logrotate-3.7.4-i486-1 --> logrotate-3.6.8-i486-1
[  upgrade  ] - pkgtools-11.0.0-i486-4 --> pkgtools-11.0.0-i486-2
[  upgrade  ] - espgs-8.15.3svn185-i486-1 --> espgs-8.15.2-i486-1
[  upgrade  ] - kernel-source-2.6.17.13-noarch-1 --> kernel-source-2.4.33.3-noarch-1
[  upgrade  ] - arts-1.5.4-i486-2 --> arts-1.5.4-i486-1
[  upgrade  ] - glibc-2.3.6-i486-6 --> glibc-2.3.6-i486-5
[  upgrade  ] - glibc-i18n-2.3.6-noarch-6 --> glibc-i18n-2.3.6-noarch-5
[  upgrade  ] - jre-1_5_0_09-i586-1 --> jre-1_5_0_08-i586-1
[  upgrade  ] - libwpd-0.8.6-i486-1 --> libwpd-0.8.5-i486-1
[  upgrade  ] - pango-1.12.4-i486-1 --> pango-1.12.3-i486-1
[  upgrade  ] - shared-mime-info-0.19-i486-1 --> shared-mime-info-0.18-i486-1
[  upgrade  ] - openssl-0.9.8d-i486-1 --> openssl-0.9.8b-i486-1
[  upgrade  ] - sendmail-cf-8.13.8-noarch-4 --> sendmail-cf-8.13.8-noarch-3
[  upgrade  ] - dejavu-ttf-2.10-noarch-1 --> dejavu-ttf-2.9-noarch-1

Am i being stupid and getting confused about the --> indicating to what the package will be updated to? If not, then you will see that every package is being flagged for applying a previous version.

Also, i have checked that i only have one mirror commented out by running the following:

Code:

grep -v '^#' /etc/slackpkg/mirrors | sed -e '/^ *$/d'
http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/ftp.slackware.com/slackware-current/

dunric · 10-09-2006, 03:14 AM

All I have to say is change to another repository server.
Mirror on http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/ftp.s...kware-current/ is outdated, syncing is somehow broken. I've checked pkgtools and glibc and both are in lower versions then on other sites.

simcox1 · 10-09-2006, 06:42 AM

Try using a US mirror. The one at osuosl is always up to date and is quick from the UK as well. I don't think that's the problem though as mirror.ac.uk is also up to date now. I had a similar problem with slackpkg wanting to downgrade rather than upgrade.

I've just noticed you're pointing at slackware-current rather than slackware-11.0. Maybe that's the problem. The slackware-current at mirror.ac.uk IS out of date.

Feinom · 12-20-2006, 01:59 PM

I'm having the same problem... I think I'll drop using slackpkg until it sorts its problems out.

Eternal_Newbie · 12-20-2006, 02:53 PM

I've the problems with UK mirrors myself, that one in particular. The Belgium ones seem most reliable in my experience.

Wynd · 12-22-2006, 07:22 PM

For now use the Slackware-11 mirrors because they have been updated more. There is an entry about it in the -current changelog. That should fix some of your problems.

Also, slackpkg will list packages for upgrade simply because the package names are different from the package list. For example, I have Gaim 2.0.0beta3.1 installed, which is newer than the Gaim 1.5 included in Slackware 11. However, when I do an upgrade-all, I get this:

[ upgrade ] - gaim-2.0.0beta3.1 --> gaim-1.5.0-i486-2

So you just have to remember which package is really the one you want.