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Thanks for the suggestion. I find that similar url is not available for rlworkman repository where there seems to be common PACKAGES.txt etc files for both architectures: http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/14.1/
I tried to compare upgrade process by slackpkg and slpkg. The command "slackpkg check-updates" gave response "no news is good news" while the command "slpkg -c slack --upgrade" produced a long list (about 70) of packages to be upgraded. What is the problem?
I tried to compare upgrade process by slackpkg and slpkg. The command "slackpkg check-updates" gave response "no news is good news" while the command "slpkg -c slack --upgrade" produced a long list (about 70) of packages to be upgraded. What is the problem?
What version use -stable or -current?
What architecture x86 or x84_64?
You have full installation?
It is stable version (14.1) x86 (32bit). It has installation of A, AP, D, L, N, X and KDE package sets.
Actually it is downgrading almost all packages:
Code:
These packages need upgrading:
+==============================================================================
| Package New Version Arch Build Repos Size
+==============================================================================
Upgrading:
apr-1.5.2 1.5.0 i486 1 Slack 232 K
apr-util-1.5.4 1.5.3 i486 1 Slack 124 K
bash-4.3.042 4.2.053 i486 1 Slack 988 K
bind-9.10.3_P2 9.9.8_P2 i486 1 Slack 2076 K
blueman r708 i486 4 Slack 524 K
btrfs-progs-v4.2.3 20150213 i486 1 Slack 452 K
ca-certificates-20150426 20150426 noarch 2 Slack 164 K
cairo-1.14.6 1.12.16 i486 1 Slack 704 K
cups-2.1.2 1.5.4 i486 4 Slack 1856 K
curl-7.46.0 7.45.0 i486 1 Slack 1040 K
dhcp-4.3.3_P1 4.3.3_P1 i486 1 Slack 1204 K
dhcpcd-6.8.2 6.0.5 i486 3 Slack 92 K
freetype-2.6.2 2.5.5 i486 1 Slack 448 K
gdk-pixbuf2-2.32.3 2.28.2 i486 2 Slack 608 K
glibc-2.22 2.17 i486 10 Slack 11840 K
glibc-i18n-2.22 2.17 i486 10 Slack 7180 K
glibc-profile-2.22 2.17 i486 10 Slack 944 K
glibc-solibs-2.22 2.17 i486 10 Slack 2324 K
glibc-zoneinfo-2015g 2015g noarch 1 Slack 128 K
gnupg-1.4.19 1.4.19 i486 2 Slack 1100 K
gnupg2-2.0.29 2.0.24 i486 1 Slack 1620 K
gnutls-3.4.4.1 3.3.17.1 i486 1 Slack 2020 K
grub-2.00 2.00 i486 3 Slack 3500 K
httpd-2.4.17 2.4.16 i486 1 Slack 2464 K
jasper-1.900.1 1.900.1 i486 4 Slack 156 K
libXfont-1.5.1 1.4.7 i486 1 Slack 132 K
libiodbc-3.52.10 3.52.8 i486 1 Slack 256 K
libjpeg-v8a v8a i486 2 Slack 228 K
libpng-1.6.20 1.4.19 i486 1 Slack 548 K
libssh-0.7.2 0.6.4 i486 1 Slack 144 K
libtasn1-4.7 3.6 i486 1 Slack 120 K
libyaml-0.1.6 0.1.6 i486 1 Slack 108 K
llvm-3.7.1 3.3 i486 3 Slack 48364 K
mariadb-10.0.22 5.5.43 i486 1 Slack 20252 K
mozilla-firefox-43.0.4 38.5.2esr i486 1 Slack 40912 K
mozilla-nss-3.20.1 3.20.1 i486 1 Slack 1528 K
mozilla-thunderbird 38.5.1 i486 1 Slack 34196 K
mutt-1.5.24 1.5.23 i486 2 Slack 960 K
ntp-4.2.8p4 4.2.8p4 i486 1 Slack 1840 K
openssh-7.1p2 7.1p2 i486 1 Slack 740 K
openssl-1.0.2e 1.0.1q i486 1 Slack 2876 K
openssl-solibs-1.0.2e 1.0.1q i486 1 Slack 1128 K
openvpn-2.3.9 2.3.6 i486 1 Slack 332 K
patch-2.7.5 2.7.4 i486 1 Slack 108 K
pcre-8.38 8.38 i486 1 Slack 748 K
php-5.6.15 5.4.45 i486 1 Slack 7292 K
pidgin 2.10.11 i486 1 Slack 6472 K
ppp-2.4.7 2.4.5 i486 3 Slack 352 K
proftpd-1.3.5 1.3.4e i486 1 Slack 844 K
qt-4.8.7 4.8.7 i486 1 Slack 28768 K
ruby-2.2.3 1.9.3_p484 i486 1 Slack 4604 K
samba-4.3.2 4.1.17 i486 1 Slack 9864 K
seamonkey 2.39 i486 1 Slack 49092 K
seamonkey-solibs-2.39 2.39 i486 1 Slack 1292 K
sendmail-8.15.2 8.14.9 i486 1 Slack 924 K
sendmail-cf-8.15.2 8.14.9 noarch 1 Slack 112 K
shadow-4.2.1 4.1.5.1 i486 3 Slack 1376 K
subversion-1.9.2 1.7.16 i486 1 Slack 3188 K
sudo-1.8.12 1.8.12 i486 1 Slack 512 K
udisks-1.0.5 1.0.5 i486 1 Slack 172 K
udisks2-2.1.5 2.1.3 i486 1 Slack 560 K
wget-1.17.1 1.14 i486 3 Slack 480 K
wpa_supplicant-2.5 2.4 i486 1 Slack 948 K
xfce4-weather-plugin 0.8.4 i486 1 Slack 2260 K
xorg-server-1.18.0 1.14.3 i486 3 Slack 1744 K
xorg-server-xephyr-1.18.0 1.14.3 i486 3 Slack 744 K
xorg-server-xnest-1.18.0 1.14.3 i486 3 Slack 532 K
xorg-server-xvfb-1.18.0 1.14.3 i486 3 Slack 672 K
xscreensaver 5.34 i486 1 Slack 4532 K
yptools-2.14 2.14 i486 3 Slack 176 K
Installing summary
===============================================================================
Total 65 packages will be upgraded and 5 will be installed.
Need to get 319.16 Mb of archives.
After this process, 1.49 Gb of additional disk space will be used.
Edit: I think I found the source of problem: the mirror uncommented in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors file is of current: http://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/f...kware-current/ . Does it mean my system is 'current'? The /etc/slackware-version file had value of 14.2 earlier, and I changed it to 14.1 manually since no repository was being found. What do I do now? Can I make this system purely current by changing slpkg configuration to current? I tried doing this by changing slpkg.conf setting to current and then running slpkg -c slack --upgrade. I will have to install about 160 packages. It seems I have a mix of current and stable system, although it is running smoothly (till now!).
Sorry man, I wonder how you don't know which version of Slackware you have installed.
slpkg doesn't do anything with /etc/slackpkg/mirrors. The default mirror for Slack repository in /etc/slpkg/default-repositrories is: mirror.slackware.com. You have uncommented Current mirror in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors yourself.
I have not actually done it as yet but I thought I could do it by selecting 'current' mirror in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors and running commands: slackpkg update; slackpkg install-new; slackpkg upgrade. Then I could put release=current in /etc/slpkg/slpkg.conf and upgrade each of the repository by commands: slpkg -c <repo> --upgrade. Will it work?
Other option is to keep running this smooth system without upgrading- till something stops working.
Yes, it works. I made "http://slackware.uk/salix/sbo/" entry for sbo in /etc/slpkg/default-repositories file and I was able to update and install packages from this repository in Salix.
I recently installed and tried Zenwalk, a Slackware based distribution. Its package manager 'netpkg' is very similar to slpkg in that it also uses multiple repositories. It, however, also has xnetpkg which makes things much simpler http://manual.zenwalk.org/en/Package%20Management.html. I would like to add an "xslpkg" to the wishlist here.
Does this mean if I remove package wine, webcore-fonts will be shown in first column above without any package mentioned in the second column?
Didn't tried this tool but "intuitively" I'd say yes, OR maybe it won't appear at all (if no package depends on it, maybe the tool doesn't even show it...).
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