Is the Slackware 13.37 installer aware of security updates ?
 

Hi

I intend ton install Slackware 13.37 on an offline (no Internet connection) computer.

Since I'm planning to use either the USB or PXE installation with a r/w up-to-date tree, I wondered if the installer would directly install the updated packages found in patches/ when it founds them, instead of the original package ?

If not, is there a way to "streamline" the updated packages inside the tree ?

I'm trying to avoid installing twice the updated packages : is that at all possible ?

Thanks for your help

Lyonel

No

You can move them into the same directory as the originals and delete the original version, the installer doesn't care about nor look for a particular version of each package.

eg
patches/packages/php-5.3.8-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz would be put into slackware64/n/php-5.3.8-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz

you would then remove slackware64/n/php-5.3.6-x86_64-6.txz

Don't forget to also do the .txt and .asc of each package

If you need help working out which disk series (sub directory) each update package belongs to check slackware64/PACKAGES.TXT and just search the package name without any version number (eg php not php-5.3.6)

Same rules apply to 32bit as they do with the 64bit examples given above.