Slpkg New Slackware packaging tool

rng · 01-23-2016, 03:01 AM

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/

rng · 01-23-2016, 07:11 PM

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?

dslackw · 01-23-2016, 10:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rng

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?

rng · 01-24-2016, 12:03 AM

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!).

travis82 · 01-24-2016, 01:37 AM

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.

rng · 01-24-2016, 07:05 PM

I am converting the system to current now.

dslackw · 01-24-2016, 08:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rng

I am converting the system to current now.

How did you do that?
With fresh installation?

rng · 01-25-2016, 06:49 AM

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.

dslackw · 01-25-2016, 09:55 AM

I recommend fresh install.

rng · 01-27-2016, 04:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by travis82

... using slpkg on slaix is a bit tricky as you must use modified sbo which is provided for salix instead main sbo repository.

What is the URL to be used for sbo repository when using slpkg in Salix?

travis82 · 01-28-2016, 04:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rng

What is the URL to be used for sbo repository when using slpkg in Salix?

<your nearest mirror>/salix/sbo/14.1/

I haven't used that with slpkg as I don't use salix. Please try it and report back about it's compatibility with slpkg.

rng · 01-28-2016, 10:23 AM

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.

rng · 02-12-2016, 10:27 PM

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.

rng · 02-15-2016, 08:43 AM

I am not clear regarding deps-status option:

Code:

# slpkg deps-status       
+==============================================================================
| Dependencies         Packages
+==============================================================================
  zlib                 cairo, epdfview, flash-plugin, leafpad, mono, slapt-get, wine
  libtiff              epdfview
  libassuan            slapt-get
  lcms2                epdfview, wine
  webcore-fonts        wine
  gcc-g++              epdfview, flash-plugin, leafpad, mono
  cairo                epdfview, flash-plugin, leafpad
...
...

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?

NoStressHQ · 02-15-2016, 09:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rng

I am not clear regarding deps-status option:

Code:

# slpkg deps-status       
+==============================================================================
| Dependencies         Packages
+==============================================================================
  zlib                 cairo, epdfview, flash-plugin, leafpad, mono, slapt-get, wine
  libtiff              epdfview
  libassuan            slapt-get
  lcms2                epdfview, wine
  webcore-fonts        wine
  gcc-g++              epdfview, flash-plugin, leafpad, mono
  cairo                epdfview, flash-plugin, leafpad
...
...

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...).

Just a "logical guess".