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xgreen 01-20-2005 01:27 AM
i think it is better to upgrade manually i.e download whatever packages that you want and install it manually....'manual swaret'

cythrawll 01-20-2005 02:24 AM
make sure you check your dependencies when manually upgrading!!!

sporks 01-20-2005 08:28 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by Phathead
Swaret isn't really an official slackware application, so by default it's a use-at-your-own-risk application. That said, I use it to do completely unattended upgrades on a production machine. That box only updates the 10.0 files.

My home computer gets updated to current about every week. The things you have to be careful with swaret is never upgrade the kernel with swaret, don't upgrade lilo or swaret itself with swaret.

No, swaret doesn't do much dependency checking, but it does virtually automate the process of finding and installing updates to Slackware. For that reason alone, I find it indespensable.
What's wrong with upgrading the kernel through swaret? :scratch:

I've never had issues with it.

Heck I've never had issues with Swaret as long as I keep an eye on the change log and make sure I know what was upgraded watching for .conf.new files, etc.

As another individual said, I find it indespensable.

cythrawll 01-20-2005 08:37 AM
I think the hardest thing when updating through swaret is figuring out what you have to reconfigure. for example, if you upgraded from xorg 6.7 to 6.8.1 ,your gonna freak out because x won't start. you have to remember to change the keyboard module mentioned in xorg.conf to kbd. Also your alsa (also you alsa lol) prolly won't work, you'll prolly have to recompile the drivers for your card. It's very important to look at the changelogs, and it's important you know what your installing, and now how to configure changes if need be.

oxleyk 01-20-2005 08:58 AM
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Originally posted by glennt11

And oxleyk I agree, I'm a dumbass, [/B]
Don't be so hard on yourself :-)

Apparently I've been very fortunate with Swaret because it works like a charm for me and I think it's the best thing since seedless watermelons, well...almost. I'm always bewildered by the vitriolic complaints of other Swaret users.

Have a day!

Kent

keefaz 01-20-2005 11:28 AM
At least do not forget to take a look in /var/swaret/.cache/Changelog.txt which is updated after
each swaret --update, so it is advisable to read this file before doing a swaret --upgrade

SlackinMonkeee 01-25-2005 07:12 PM
swaret is garbage. whenever i reinstall i grab a -current iso from ftp://inferno.bioinformatics.vt.edu/...ros/slackware/
and upgrade what i want manually.

it took me 10+ hours to use swaret only to find out that X/kde no longer worked

xgreen 01-25-2005 10:25 PM
is it worth to try slapt-get or slackpkg or others upgrade application?

sporks 01-25-2005 10:40 PM
<shrug>

I've always installed and upgraded to Current with Swaret from a fresh install. Once again, I've had NO issues with X, KDE, alsa, whatever, as long as I pay attention to what Swaret upgraded.

If you can't do that then you probably shouldn't be using it.

Smokey 01-26-2005 03:24 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by Phathead
Swaret isn't really an official slackware application, so by default it's a use-at-your-own-risk application. That said, I use it to do completely unattended upgrades on a production machine. That box only updates the 10.0 files.
Actually it is included in /extra of 9.1 but slackpkg has served 10.0 well, it's in the 10.1 beta as well.


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