From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pop-a065d14.pas.sa.earthlink.net ([207.217.121.252]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DIYPr-0005Co-00 for ; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 16:43:24 -0400 Received: from h-68-166-89-140.chcgilgm.covad.net ([68.166.89.140] helo=linserver.romuald.net.eu.org) by pop-a065d14.pas.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #10) id 1DIYPo-0002pQ-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 13:43:21 -0700 Received: (qmail 18616 invoked by uid 1023); 4 Apr 2005 20:43:19 -0000 Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 15:43:19 -0500 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20050404204319.GA18397@romuald.net.eu.org> References: <20050403201401.GA9059@romuald.net.eu.org> <20050404202423.GC2190@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; x-action=pgp-signed; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050404202423.GC2190@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc Subject: Re: upgrading slackware with swaret X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 20:43:24 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I noticed that after Joseph's message, and located slackpkg in the extras directory instead. Slackpkg isn't bad, except for the annoying problem of not being able to upgrade everything all at once like you could do with swaret. My solution is to invoke slackpkg 26 times, per each letter of the alphabet for each group of packages (I.E. slackware, gnome, extras, pasture). Using up-arrow with backspace and then enter once you've typed in the next letter means that it's not as tedious as it could be, but it's still a pain. I'm still upgrading as I write, so we'll see what I end up with after I reboot. The up-shot to slackpkg is that it requires far less configuration then swaret did, but I still think I liked swaret better then slackpkg, that maybe because I was very impressed with it when upgrading to 9.1 the last time. I also liked the fact that swaret could upgrade certain packages before any others (I.E. upgrade glibc and friends, then pkgtools, then everything else). If you're not mindful of giving the packages to upgrade to slackpkg in that particular order, you run into problems. Greg On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 01:24:24PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > It was dropped even with 10.0. I was really sorry to see it go as > there really isn't anything else in its place. I didn't get to do a > whole lot with it when I did use it but it looked interesting and I > thought promising. > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCUabn7s9z/XlyUyARAiVHAJ42C/wPx8vT9tFn8kjxfsHo1spxZACgy2UE l5/YceMHQXMlIYh9imTrtCw= =qD7+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----