I'd like to know how long it takes to go from slack9.1 to slack-current using swaret. It looks like my system's hung on fetching the FILELIST, but my hard drive light flashes periodically, so I'm not sure. I don't want to cancle because I don't want to lose the time that it might've been working. I cancled an --update while it was fetching the filelist before, but that was because I forgot to change the config to current instead of 9.1. So does the filelist take a while the first time? Or do you think it's hung up?(I'm running on a 200mhz computer, if that helps at all)

I just rebuilt my machine earlier today and it took about 20 minutes to download and install all the software (P3 733mhz). Though it didn't "freeze" during the process and I was able to watch it's progress.

okay, I think I'll reinstall swaret then. This has been going on for over an hour, staying at this one step.

How fast is your connection? It *really* shouldn't take long to do the --update. My advice: cancel and retry. After all, it only takes 1 minute on my broadband connection

well, I don't think that fixed it. Maybe it will just take a long, long time....

I have 3MB/s cable...

I had a similar problem with a previous version of swaret. Have you done swaret --check to make sure you have the latest version?

You can also try to remove swaret, then re-install. Be sure to edit the config file before you run it.

It should NOT take that long...at the very least you should see the progress as it downloads and updates packages.

Okay, my lists finished I think, but it doesn't continue
In my /var/swaret/PACKAGES.TXT file I found these lines at the top:


PACKAGES.TXT; Thu Dec 18 22:08:11 PST 2003

This file provides details on the Slackware packages found
in the ./slackware/ directory.

Total size of all packages (compressed): 919 MB
Total size of all packages (uncompressed): 2553 MB

Now, I hope that doesn't mean it's going to download all 919 MB, because that would be a pain. I also looked for a /var/swaret/slackware directory, but none exists.

I'm tempted to create that directory and try again....

Grr, I just ran swaret --check, then ran the swaret --update and it worked. All those hours wasted waiting...

I use swaret to update/upgrade from my own current-tree, like
ROOT=file:/home/ftp/slackware/current

Below is a script I used to keep my current-tree current/actualized.

To use it, stream the most actual 9.1-CD into a dir /home/ftp/slackware,
Create 2 dirs (mkdir /tmp{rbak,rtmp} used for rsync), comment/uncommnt
from which source u gonna rsync ur tree, the first rsync may take few
hours, but then u ll have the most actual slackware-current-tree.
!!! The script DELETE, all obsoleted PACKAGES u ever have on
ur old tree, and replace with possible new pakages..

U then to forget about the all the CDs u ever have !!!
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#!/bin/sh

SCRIPT="\n\t`/usr/bin/basename $0`:"
RDEST="/home/ftp/slackware/current/"

RSRC="rsync://ftp.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-current/"
#RSRC="rsync://rsync.slackware.at/slackware/slackware-current/"
#RSRC="rsync://rsync.slackware.no/slackware/slackware-current/"
#RSRC="rsync://mirror.pudas.net/slackware/slackware-current/"
#RSRC="rsync://slackware.orbital.us/slackware/slackware-current/"
#RSRC="rsync://ftp.biochem.uthscsa.edu/pub/linux/slackware/slackware-current"

# Attention, below is a line only !
rsync -a -u --stats -P -v --temp-dir=/tmp/rtmp/ --backup-dir=/tmp/rbak/ --delete
--exclude=/pasture/ --exclude=/source/ --exclude=/zipslack/ $RSRC $RDEST

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End of update discussion.

dirstyGuy, I don't fully understand. Are you saying to copy the files from the 9.1 disk I burned? and make directories /tmp/rbak and /tmp/rtmp? And then copy your code into my swaret.conf file?

No, u copy the whole 9.1-CD into a partition say "/whereEver"
then adjust RDEST="/whereEver"

Then use the script for synchronizing the content of the CD with the slackware-current tree identical with those on the official slacware-site or mirrors. Then edit ur "/etc/swaret.conf", comment all

#ROOT=http://...
#ROOT=ftp://

and append a line like
ROOT=file:/whereEverUrCurrentTreeIs
Mine is
ROOT=file:/home/ftp/slackware/current

Then
swaret --update
swaret --upgrade

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N rrrrthink also to buy other products from slackware store if u don't need CDs..
http://store.slackware.com/cgi-bin/store

you can try editing your /etc/swaret.conf and comment out a few of the mirrors you connect to,. some of them take forever or dont work, while others are good.

if you do connect, and download some of the packages, you can always cancel, and continue later... they are saved in /var/swaret/ , including the last one that was partially downloaded, which it continues downloading when you reconnect to the mirrors.