upgrade from RC-pi to 13.37-stable?

tramni1980 · 04-13-2011, 03:46 PM

Hello!
I recently installed Slackware-13.37-RCpi on a production machine. In view of the many changes since then, will the upgrade to 13.37-stable, when it comes to the world, be as easy as syncing the local mirror with slackpkg and re-running lilo? What worries me is that there were changes of the kernel and the headers and I am afraid there might be some pitfalls associated with that. Will I need to recompile the packages I compiled and installed on the stock 13.37-RCpi?

Thanks in advance,

Martin

Didier Spaier · 04-13-2011, 04:13 PM

It's hard to answer your question unless we know which _non_stock_ packages you added to Slackware-13.37RCpi.

tramni1980 · 04-13-2011, 04:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

It's hard to answer your question unless we know which _non_stock_ packages you added to Slackware-13.37RCpi.

Ок, I compiled and installed texlive, kile, wxGTK and aMule.

Didier Spaier · 04-13-2011, 04:42 PM

I don't know how you built the packages but for all the ones you listed Slackbuilds are available @ http://slackbuilds.org/.

Thus, in case one of them wouldn't work after upgrade that shouldn't a problem: just use the slackbuild for 13.37 which will be available shortly after the Slackware-13.37 release.